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You can't find the soul with a scalpel. -- Gustave Flaubert
Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars. -- Maxwell Maltz
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. -- Patricia Cornwell
Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club. -- Matt Chandler
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch, -- Michael Ondaatje
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel. -- Jay Samit
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser -- Michael Caine
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. -- Richard Matheson
Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel. -- Artie Shaw
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people. -- Diana Butler Bass
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. -- Ed Koch
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. -- Alan Dershowitz
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. -- Irving Penn
In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel. -- Tommy Bolt
At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died. -- Jonathan Davis
Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet. -- Ronald Reagan
Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate. -- Denton Cooley
Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth. -- Marcus Aurelius
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face. -- Karen Marie Moning
He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity. -- Charles Dickens
I love the process of cutting everything out with a scalpel yourself: I don't want to have my stencils drawn up in Illustrator, then laser-cut. I like the fact that it's slightly wrong; I think it gives it a beauty. The individual and handmade will always be worth more than what a computer can do, at least until computers can learn how to make mistakes. -- Ben Eine

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