Naked Quotes - Page 12

• Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

  Tom Robbins

  Sexy, Mean, Cynical

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

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• She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

  Ayn Rand

  Pain, Witness

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.710, Penguin

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• Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Sex, Color

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• Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eye, Water, Floating

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• Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Montana, Knows, Courses

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• I don't feel naked around you anymore.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Feels

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• Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humor, Dobby, Hats

  "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 8, 2000.

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• Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Distance, Men, Poetry Is

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• When did you become a woman?"-Hatori How dare you ask that after you have seen me naked so many times..."-Yuki GASP! No it cant be! Yuki-kun, does that mean..." fan club girls NO! He's my doctor..."Yuki

  Natsuki Takaya

  Girl, Mean, Doctors

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hipster, Night, Mind

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.

  John Berger

  Heart, Years, Clothes

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Old Friends

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• In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Men, Soul

  "The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781".

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• [about his dress robes...] I’m never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never." "Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh.

  J. K. Rowling

  Laughing, Dresses, Goodness

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• I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Lonely, Grief

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• you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mind, Good Enough, Instruments

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.181, Macmillan

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• But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Love Is, Mirrors

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• Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Believe, Reality, Order

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• Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

  Marguerite Duras

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books

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• Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Soul, Body

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.107, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.

  James Thurber

  Memories, Father, Mean

  JAMES THURBER (1945). “THE THURBER CARNIVAL”

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• In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Spiritual, Sunday, Simple

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• My school colors were clear. We used to say, 'I'm not naked, I'm in the band.

  Steven Wright

  School, Color, Band

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• Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.

  Pablo Neruda

  Pride, Hair, Snow

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Children, Father

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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