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O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947