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• Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Numbness, Next Day

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Anchor

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• Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wall, Gun, Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.340, Scholastic Inc.

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• Juno: "The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem." Percy: Cause I was right and he was wrong" Juno: "He should be used to that after being married to me so long, but alas.

  Rick Riordan

  Self Esteem, Hero, Long

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• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  Laura Linney

  Intelligent, Casting, Groups

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• We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.

  Yukio Mishima

  Betrayal, Trying, Betrayed

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• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Strong, Home, Sick

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• The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Spring, Real, Water

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• The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

  Osamu Dazai

  Wool, Cotton, Sometimes

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

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• Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

  Pat Conroy

  Winning, Tragedy, Encounters

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark

  Suzanne Collins

  Just Being, Shots, Catching

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• We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Writing, Games, May

  FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Jul 29, 2016

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• This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

  John Steinbeck

  Son, Men, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (1994). “The Pearl”, p.60, Penguin

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• He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.

  Darynda Jones

  Men, Mad, Parent

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.128, Macmillan

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• I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, People, Ears

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Country, War

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• When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Thank You, Cutting, Army

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Young British Soldier"

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• I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

  John Dryden

  Determination, Fighting, Littles

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• I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

  Yann Martel

  Pain, Heart, Nerves

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.108, Vintage Canada

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• I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

  Hugh Laurie

  Hero, Character, House

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Jan 10, 2012

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• I look at some of the kids that I interact with, and they were born with so many disadvantages. And you could start off in your first interaction with them saying, "Unless they get a lot of compensatory help, they're not going to be able to compete; they're just so far behind, and they're wounded and they're hurt."

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Kids, Looks

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

  Phillips Brooks

  Believe, Men, Knowing

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• Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty monstrous. It's the self-loathing rage of a wounded animal and he doesn't have a coping mechanism at all. It ties in with the discipline and the magic of this world.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fall, Animal, Self

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be.

  Keri Hulme

  Artist, Land, Skills

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• I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who lost a parent or whose parent was severely wounded in combat.

  George W. Bush

  Kids, Golf, Weekend

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.

  Steven Knight

  Book, Heart, Knees

  Source: collider.com

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