In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, air currents and brushing overcoats while direct contact with doors and chairs seemed to occasion no discomfort. No wound healed in his soft, tentative flesh... Long white tendrils of fungus curled round the naked bones.
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Related He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clou... TOM ROBBINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Alan had loved her breakfast pastries best; Charlie craved her pies. He liked them true-blue America... JULIA GLASS Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a... YOTAM OTTOLENGHI The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS He dragged his lips up the soft skin of her neck and gently nipped her ear lobe, sipping on the soft... ANGELA QUARLES By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. BIBLE It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that t... E.L. MASCALL He pushed himself a fraction deeper, still exploring his lazy rhythm. I could feel his thickness beg... JULIETTE MILLER Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked i... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That wasn't his right track today with the soft conditions around Mooney Valley and I was happy with... DAVID HAYES His form was of the manliest beauty,
His heart was kind and soft,
Faithful, below, he did his ... CHARLES DIBDIN And Adam said, This is the bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, bec... BIBLE In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great that I thought I wa... JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w... JACK KEROUAC Drink." she whispered, drawing nearer. "Drink." she held the soft, tender flesh of the wrist towards... ANNE RICE He was a small person and very soft spoken, but he was a huge presence in the department and the uni... GEORGE HERRING I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very lo... LYDIA DAVIS The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witching of the soft blue s... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while ... DAN WELLS And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. BIBLE His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We went there for little practices and we were told that a soft ball match was being played, which n... BOB WOOLMER So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love,
And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution
Told his s... COLLEY CIBBER Soft hearts provide poor harbor; tin hearts can better stand against time and bad weather, thin and ... DEXTER PALMER His anger took many shapes: sometimes soft and familiar, like a round stone he had caressed for so l... LAILA LALAMI His breath like silver arrows pierced the air,
The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,
... FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER) Fuck me,” I whispered, giving him permission, taking him into my flesh, a soft invitation to madne... EMME ROLLINS There was a moment during this time, when his face was on hers, cheek on cheek, brow on brow, heavy ... A.S. BYATT We had two men to choose from, and Neil Armstrong, reticent, soft-spoken, and heroic was our only ch... CHRIS KRAFT An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his... GEORGE CATLIN Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective W... BARTON GELLMAN We gave up a soft goal in the second half and it was caused by indiscipline. No one was marking the ... DR DEAN WEATHERLY Variety is the food of the flesh. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The flesh still remains the flesh,irrespective of it's religious state,it's character never changes. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. BIBLE White Fang received the nursing. Judge Scott's suggestion of a trained nurse was indignantly clamour... JACK LONDON The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair a... OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib ... JACK LONDON Isabel felt soft and yielding; her blouse felt soft. Everything about her seemed soft, and she smell... SUSAN WIGGS I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, “I want you to listen to me, if you can.” I leaned ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. HUNTER S. THOMPSON No pillows so soft as God's Promise. ANON. Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that&... MAYA ANGELOU After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't plan on hitting the ball soft. He threw it soft, so I hit it soft. They were catching the ... EMIL BROWN We got tentative there, because we kind of got soft both offensively and defensively. CK HANSEN No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look in... FREDERICK BUSCH He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight. He was made of darkness. VICTORIA SCHWAB Man is always in warfare with his flesh,for he wants one thing & his flesh wants another. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Catches everything that comes his way, has soft hands and great balance. He goes and gets the ball. CLARK HAGGANS His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented real... JULIAN BARNES There is no accountability in soft money. None. ZACK WAMP Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. H... MARILYNNE ROBINSON Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grac... ROBERT GRAVES And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; ... WILLIAM TYNDALE I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then ... ANGUS WILSON His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, prom... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, sof... MARKUS ZUSAK There should be no soft bedding in the crib, ... As many as a third of the deaths from SIDS could ha... ANN BROWN Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's ... HARPER LEE And his hair was free, no ponytail, no braid, the long thickness of it waved and curled down his bac... KRISTEN ASHLEY She was here, with him, and she felt like heaven. The soft scent of her hair, the slight taste of sa... JULIA QUINN At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartil... IYANLA VANZANT A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silke... THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light d... ERIN BOW I don't know how long I've got to address the soft opponent thing. But Arizona is not soft. LORENZO ROMAR No one can overcome this lusty flesh by acting with gross overconfidence,but by humbly daily taming ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rampaging flesh;Beware!For the flesh during the teenage years is mostly looking for someone to d... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If the flesh were to be a preacher the gospel it will love to preach is the gospel called variety. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The biggest burden we all carry in life is not the fear of death,but the fear of our unpredictable f... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Fear the lion,fear the crocodile,but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the h... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The most dangerous weapon in life is not the atomic bomb or the AK 47 riffle,but the human flesh. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep... MICHAEL JACKSON The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical tha... POPE BENEDICT XVI The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical tha... JOSEPH RATZINGER The children of the rich usually don't have strong determination to be rich,because they were born i... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I'm used to the security of living behind my online profiles and the clip art advertisdements I crea... KATIE KACVINSKY The story in (the first quarter) was soft wireless margins. DAVID BARDEN I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank... JALINA MHYANA There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. FRENCH PROVERB There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience FRENCH PROVERB But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sin... WENDY JAMES He knelt down beside her and slowly rubbed a soft, muculent mix on her bare skin like a sculptor at ... MIRETTE BAGHAT He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when... TAHEREH MAFI It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience. GLEN CAMPBELL He'd broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever ... LEIGH BARDUGO He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili... ELIZABETH GASKELL Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to... DONALD CURTIS Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to... DONALD CURTIS He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully t... NICHOLAS SPARKS When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the pr... MAGGIE STIEFVATER So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, an... BIBLE In soft regions are born soft men. HERODOTUS Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS A broom that was almost never used was leaned up against the wall. He took it and started to sweep. ... JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST
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BURROUGHS Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugl... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All the filth and horror, fear, hate disease and death of human history flows between you and the We... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Writers don't write, they read and transcribe. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I don't make myself work. It's just the thing I want to do. To be completely alone in a room, to kno... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We gotta find a way off this goddamn cop-ridden planet. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit w... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL think... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner sp... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of fink... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base.... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people... WILLIAM S BURROUGHS Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any str... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That old feeling is still in my leaking heart. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the fr... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Exterminate all rational thought WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen ... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." Th... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go? WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS