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• I’ve always been able to tell a lot about people by whether they ask me about my scar. Most people never ask, but if it comes up naturally somehow and I offer up the story, they are quite interested. Some people are just dumb: 'Did a cat scratch you?' God bless. Those sweet dumdums I never mind. Sometimes it is a fun sociology litmus test, like when my friend Ricky asked me, 'Did they ever catch the black guy that did that to you?' Hmmm. It was not a black guy, Ricky, and I never said it was.

  Tina Fey

  Sweet, Fun, Cat

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• Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

  Publilius Syrus

  Healed, Remains, Wounds

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 236, 1856.

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• without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

  Janet Fitch

  Past, Faces, Wounds

  "White Oleander". Book by Janet Fitch, 1999.

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• I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked!

  Jennifer Morrison

  Moles, Six, Seven

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

  Sara Zarr

  Thinking, Hands, Cabinets

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• Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

  Gayle Forman

  Wall, Tired, Effort

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• We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place.

  Michael Chabon

  Heart, Ideas, Broken

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.113, Random House

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• I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

  Holly Black

  Cutting, Long, Rose

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• These scars on my body,” Alexander declared, “were got for you, my brothers. Every wound, as you see, is in the front. Let that man stand forth from your ranks who has bled more than I, or endured more than I for your sake. Show him to me, and I will yield to your weariness and go home.” Not a man came forward. Instead, a great cheer arose from the army. The men begged their king to forgive them for their want of spirit and pleaded with him only to lead them forward.

  Steven Pressfield

  Brother, Kings, Cheer

  Steven Pressfield (2011). “The Warrior Ethos”, p.25, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Life goes on but the scars remain.

  Lil Wayne

  Goes On, Life Goes On

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• Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

  David R. Brower

  Earth, Mark, Polite

  "Today’s Environmental Activists Stand on David Brower’s Shoulders" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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• like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Tissues, Bones

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• We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

  Dan Savage

  Fall, Love You, Love Is

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.

  Patricia Moyes

  Suicide, Revenge, Leaving

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• If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

  Myrtle Reed

  Believe, Fire, Heaven

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• Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Smart, Giving, Biting

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• A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

  Margaret Deland

  Positive, Flames, May

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.230, The Floating Press

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• Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

  Jon Foreman

  Children, Pain, Tears

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

  Susan Sontag

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• The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues.

  Haile Gerima

  White, Issues, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Scars are but evidence of life and wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We may not make the same mistakes again.

  Marcia Lynn McClure

  Mistake, Healing, May

  Marcia Lynn McClure (2012). “The Whispered Kiss”, p.127, Distractions Ink

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• Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?

  John Rzeznik

  Stars, Past, Life Is

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• I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

  Dave Matthews

  Reflection, Past, Glasses

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• It's never come easy for me. I don't think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don't think were healed.

  Tom Brady

  Thinking, Mind, Easy

  Interview with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. November 4, 2005.

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• I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn.

  Delores Phillips

  Coward, Quinn

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