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Author Unknown
The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos.
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Author Unknown
Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.
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Billy Elmer
Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.
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Jack London
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Leo, tattooist, 1993, quoted in Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription, 2000
[A] genuine tattoo.... tells a story. I like stories and tattoos, no matter how well done, and if they don't tell a story that involves you emotionally, then they're just there for decoration, then they're not a valid tattoo. There has to be some emotional appeal or they're not, to my way of thinking, a real tattoo. It tells people what you are and what you believe in, so there's no mistakes.
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Michelle Delio
Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it.... Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.
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Michelle Delio
When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.
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Ronald Scutt
[P]rimitive tribes were certainly convinced that the spirit, having escaped from the body at death, retained a replica of its earthly tenement. They therefore used tattoo marks as a means of identification in the next world and a passport to future happiness.
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V. Vale and Andrea Juno, Modern Primitives
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.
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