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I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with. -- Nick Cave
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds. -- Horace
One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky. -- Edmond Jabes
'Look Daughter, and learn how to love' and He showed me His five open wounds. -- Gemma Galgani
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] -- Horace
Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds. -- R. K. Milholland
His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. -- George R. R. Martin
I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin?The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold -- Chuck Schuldiner
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. -- Jessamyn West
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound. -- Randa Haines
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound. -- Jacques Derrida
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound. -- Griffin Dunne
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world. -- Steven Pinker
It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it. -- Michael Moore
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. -- Washington Irving
I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea. -- Lucy Larcom
I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood. -- Rachel Cusk
I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers. -- Deirdre Lovejoy
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean. -- Jane Campion
Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals -- Thomas S. Monson
Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed. -- Richard Bandler
Throw a pair of Band-Aids over your eyelids, and open your eyes to your wounds. -- Jarod Kintz
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party. -- Tacitus
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open. -- Washington Allston
We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done! -- V.C. Andrews
That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again. -- Larry Moss

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