“I'm jus' pain covered with skin.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck366
American writer 1902–1968Related quotes
“Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.”
Charles Frazier (1950) American writer
“I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.”
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
To a neighbor (1856), as quoted in A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant https://books.google.com/books?id=0G1LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=%22may+not+cover+a+true+heart+as+well+as+a%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uZngVIKtGsicNqz1gYgB&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false (1868), by Albert Deane Richardson, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, p. 155. According to some other sources, he had also used this phrase in a letter to Robert E. Lee (General of the Confederacy). <br class="br">1850s
“It pains me to believe that you have never stepped out of the skin you live with.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)
“If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.”
Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse
Pat Condell (1949) Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality
"The trouble with Islam" (16 March 2007)
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