"Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!"

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Source : Marion D. Hanks (1974). “The Gift of Self”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

Marion D. Hanks

#Trying Quotes #Important Quotes #Alive Quotes

“The communists pave the way for him (the Jew).”
“The first step... shall be to lose the way.”
“I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.”
“Poetry is what is gained in translation.”

Source : "Raw Material by Derek Mahon - review" by Aingeal Clare, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.
“Yes I marked the spot in the garage..when I was back at the house on December 22. They had asked me with all of the rebuilding of the garage, which was the last area of concrete..in the last area where the concrete was poured. And they handed me an orange spray can and I put an 'X'..that's it! An 'X' over the spot in the corner of the garage where I thought the last area was poured. Now all of a sudden Kunkle claims that I not only drew an 'X', but I put an 'O' on top of it where the head was and made the 'X' look like it was a stick figure..and that's not true.”
“A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.222, Wave Books
“What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?”
“Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.”

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