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• The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Fall, Iron, White

  "The American Boy". www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2013.

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• My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Pain, Self Harm, Will To Survive

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• Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

  Michael Pitt

  Fun, Hard Work, Scary

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• Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Appreciate, Scary, Pressure

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• For Beirut it was the civil war, and the dividing of the city - which is something that is shared among Beirut, Berlin and Baghdad. And Cairo is a city that has a scar that was born after many decades of dictatorship - oppression shaped the people's lives, and forced people to grow up accompanied by fear. I belong to a generation that, whether we like it or not, was shaped by this fear of death or loosing the people you love, the threat of war, not allowed to be yourself, forced to be silent - as you watch ignorance occupying everything around you. And this is a deep scar.

  Tamer El Said

  Being Yourself, Growing Up, War

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. I’ve still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that they’d finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.

  Lennox Lewis

  School, Long, Guy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Hair, People, Teeth

  "Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth on Afghanistan and the spirit of our armed forces". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 22, 2009.

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• What I'm most interested in is not necessarily the wound, but the scar. Not how someone is wounded, but what the scar does later.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Doe, Wounded, Wounds

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

  Chris Abani

  Book, Fiction, Narrative

  Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• Before it was called Hillarycare - I mean, before it was called ObamaCare it was called Hillarycare because we took them on, and we weren't successful, but we kept fighting and we got the children's health insurance program. Every step along the way I have stood up, and fought, and have the scars to prove it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Mean, Fighting

  "Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate". www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Fall, Sleep

  "Song: "Not Dark Yet" ("Time Out of Mind")". 1997.

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• I really see the U.S. staggering under the burden of three blows. One is 9/11 and the threat of terrorism, which is still huge in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. The second is the failed 2003 war in Iraq, which cost so much and ruined America's credibility in the eyes of so many. Obama has repaired it to some extent, but those scars are deep. And then, thirdly, banks failed, the whole real estate market had the carpet pulled out from under it.

  Chris Alexander

  Real, War, Eye

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When I announced I had cancer on stage, it was my brain leaping to that insane moment of, "There's no way I could start a show saying, 'Hi, I have cancer!'" And also for me to have these scars, and then think, "Oh my gosh, what if I did stand-up and not even acknowledge that my shirt was off, or that I have scars.

  Tig Notaro

  Cancer, Thinking, What If

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I talk about airplanes and things like that while my scars are on clear view.

  Tig Notaro

  Airplane, Views, Clear View

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Bullying can leave scars that do not heal.

  Megyn Kelly

  Bullying, Heal

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, African American, Energy

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

  Jeff Sessions

  Abuse, Victim, Born

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I was quite young I came across a collection of [Franz] Kafka stories and read "The Judgment." I was just floored by that story. I couldn't understand it. I still don't. I'm talking about something I read more than 50 years ago. That story left a little scar on me.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Talking, Years, Stories

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I do believe that we all have these stories inside of us, these scars that we compulsive worry as we do wounds, and that drive for redemption, to change the story or resolve it, governs a lot of what we do in love. We are irresistibly drawn to opportunities to reenact those traumas out of a desire to heal, not to punish ourselves.

  Melissa Febos

  Believe, Opportunity, Worry

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People can lose so much skin that it has a huge effect on the body and when they scar they are affected for life. I've worked in this area and have for years tried to improve spray on skin cells, but this is just one part of the jigsaw towards making it better. We needed to get it on quicker then we can reduce the scarring. That's my motivation, my drive towards making it better.

  Fiona Wood

  Motivation, People, Skins

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• But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Wall, Simple

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• On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Stars, Healing

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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  It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Past, Sight

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.526, Macmillan

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• You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Relationship, Family, Years

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.442, A&C Black

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• I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Inspirational, Failure, Thinking

  "Talking to Myself (The Past, the Feminine, the Vain)". Book by Yohji Yamamoto and Kiyokazu Washida, 2002.

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