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• Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Pain, Survival, Language

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.

  Toni Morrison

  Light, Hands, Lovely

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.16, Random House

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• Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

  Joe Bageant

  Mind, Generations

  Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.13, Broadway Books

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• We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Brother, Growing Up, Rooms

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• I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning.

  Amy Harmon

  Thinking, Color, Perfect

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Perfect

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• Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

  Chris Marker

  Memories, Remembrance, Ordinary

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• That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

  Rachel Weisz

  Real, Water, Scary

  "EXCLUSIVE: Part 1: The Stunts of Constantine", movieweb.com. February 11, 2005.

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• My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kings, Faces, Prove

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2010

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• When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.

  Hermann Hesse

  Struggle, Cutting, Years

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

  Evel Knievel

  Pain, Bones, Chicks

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• Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.

  Mat Hoffman

  Tattoo, Cycling, People

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• Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

  Markus Zusak

  Dark, Remember, Instinct

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.

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• As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will

  Leonard Cohen

  Dark, Green Hills, Body

  Song: True Love Leaves No Traces, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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• War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.

  Laini Taylor

  War, Heart, Blood

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• Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his temper with everyone around him who isn’t in childbirth. And he has yet to start shooting lighting bolts at people. Poor Damien still has a burn scar.” – Kat

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Dad, Grandma

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.400, St. Martin's Press

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• Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Children, Fun, Real

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Nov 18, 2011

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• Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

  Regina Doman

  Sound, Body, Next

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• What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?" Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me." "Same," Raffy says. I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking.

  Melina Marchetta

  Brother, Memories, Thinking

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• He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up.

  Nora Roberts

  Hard Times, Wild Side, Tangled

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.748, Penguin

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• If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

  Stephen King

  Love, Looks, Dimples

  Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

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• No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

  Adrienne Rich

  Passion, Animal, Air

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

  Peter David

  Use, Mortals, Wounds

  Peter David (2002). “New Frontier”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

  Barry Lyga

  Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

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