"Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks"

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Richard Siken

#Clothes Quotes #Hands Quotes #Skins Quotes

“A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.”
“Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.”

Source : Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada
“You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.”

Source : Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.189, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.”
“Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.”
“While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.”
“I wonder why we hate the past so.”
“It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.”

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