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Tar Heel, currently of Birmingham, AL
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." -Joan Didion
There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. … But I became a writer all the same, and shall remain one until the end of the chapter, just as a cow goes on giving milk all her life, even though what appears to be her self-interest urges her to give gin. … What the meaning of human life may be I don’t know: I incline to suspect that it has none. All I know about it is that, to me at least, it is very amusing while it lasts. Even its troubles, indeed, can be amusing. Moreover, they tend to foster the human qualities that I admire most—courage and its analogues.
H.L. Mencken
