“The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand.”

— Margaret Atwood, book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

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Canadian writer 1939

Norman Maclean (1902–1990) American author and scholar

"A River Runs Through It", p. 22 http://books.google.com/books?id=5GL2_ctw58gC&q=%22The+brain+gives+up+a+lot+less+easily+than+the+body%22&pg=PA58#v=onepage <br class="br">A River Runs Through It (1976)

“When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, pg 37

“[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

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“A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Thinking

“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle.”

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II

Said on a visit to Lockerbie in 1993 to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet, as quoted in "Prince Philip's gaffes" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/416992.stm, BBC News (10 August 1999) <br class="br">1990s

“Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands—alternately cool, warm, moist and dry—a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.”

Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead

Source: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 5 (pp. 119-120)