shopworn quotes

  •    I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

    - Pierre Auguste Renoir
    Quoted inJean Renoir Renoir, My Father (translated by R and D Weaver,1962).

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