"Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?"

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Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.287, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Tom Spanbauer

#Skins Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Next Quotes

“My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.”
“I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.”
“What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.”
“It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.”
“True, but irrelevant.”
“We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.”
“I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.”

Source : The OK! Magazine Interview, okmagazine.com. April 6, 2011.
“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.”

Source : Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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