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A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. -- George Herbert
The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church. -- Henry Wotton
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class. -- Jack London
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively. -- Peter Beard
She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt. -- Kristin Hannah
I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee. -- Carol Burnett
my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely. -- Tove Ditlevsen
If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal. -- Leon Brown
I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them. -- Cindy Crawford
Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief. -- Jesmyn Ward
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much. -- Marlon Brando
Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time. -- George Carlin
Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike. -- Noam Chomsky
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly. -- Janet Malcolm
I think a lot of women look at prostitutes like they're scabs crossing an union picket line, where they go: You can't just go out and sell it for what it's worth, we're holding out for so much more! -- Doug Stanhope
I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it. -- Charlaine Harris
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform. -- Cyril Connolly
One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession. -- Michael Parenti
I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos. -- Brandon Boyd
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound. -- Robin Hobb
One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me. -- Salvador Plascencia

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