"With, or despite our scars, we stay alive."

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Source : Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.93, W. W. Norton & Company

Marilyn Hacker

#Alive Quotes #Scar Quotes #Staying Alive Quotes

“Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better”

Source : De la Suggestion et de Ses Applications (1915)
“Always follow your heart. Sometimes it's gonna hurt - but you're going to be fine.”

Source : "Jennifer Talks". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.
“I think a little bit of competition is always good.”
“Belief gives you the power to achieve the extraordinary”
“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.”
“The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country's resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that the countries that they're going to are themselves not as stable as the citizens would like, I think. We're all just one catastrophe away from ending up as a refugee, and we don't want to be reminded of that.”
“Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.”
“[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external thingsâ€”property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his cities and his factories, in his business and job and art. But having projected himself into these external complexities, he is them. His house, his automobile are a part of him and a large part of him. This is beautifully demonstrated by a thing doctors knowâ€”that when a man loses his possessions a very common result is sexual impotence.”

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