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• Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

  Douglas Coupland

  Birthday, Funny Christmas, Scary

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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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• 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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• Jesus, he meets you where you are. Jesus, he heals your secret scars.

  Wayne Watson

  Religious, Jesus, Secret

  Song: Friend Of A Wounded Heart

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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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• 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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• 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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• Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one’s business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way. Yet.

  Tammara Webber

  Tattoo, Battle Wounds, Escaping

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• I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

  David Fincher

  Ocean, Swimming, Gone

  "David Fincher: All the best connections" by Tim Walker, www.independent.co.uk. October 8, 2010.

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• Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forever, Soul, Faces

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• The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

  Edmond Taylor

  War, Europe, Mind

  Edmond Taylor (2015). “The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922”, p.312, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Space, Emotion

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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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• Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.

  Jason Biggs

  Sex, Opposites, Feet

  "Jason Biggs 'American Pie 2'". Interview with Jane Crowther, www.bbc.co.uk.

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• I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.

  Brenda Fricker

  Pain, Hockey, Abuse

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• I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Lines, Pimples

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• I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.

  Steven Adler

  Mirrors, Looks

  ""Back From The Dead": Steven Adler Delivers A True Rock Masterpiece". Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. November 25, 2012.

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• ...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Pain, Past, Dragons

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• The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Feel Better, Jumping, Years

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• Dodge," Alyss said, putting a hand to the parrallel scars on his cheek, that brand left so long ago by The Cat. She pressed her lips against each of them--four delicate kisses. When she pulled away, he was smiling.

  Frank Beddor

  Cat, Kissing, Long Ago

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• I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

  Alice Sebold

  Beautiful, Running, Eight

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

  Wallace Stegner

  Inspirational, Motivation, Heart

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• By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Children, Moving, Healing

  Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (2000). “O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life”, p.538, Univ of South Carolina Press

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