Animal Flesh

Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or flesh:

“All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself—civilization, in a word—are the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which charactizes the animal world from which he made his escape.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.”
—Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)