Every person's life, we say, is a story. In fact, when a life becomes story, a person knows he has 'a life.' The narrative instinct sorts, orders, represses, highlights, finessing its way to a certain contour—not to 'reality,' and certainly not to 'the truth,' but to shapeliness. To represent the whole of reality is beyond the capacity of art, even outside its desire.
—Patricia Hampl
Anyway (Frank)
I feel the happiness of the man who sees the spider at the bottom of the goblet, and drinks anyway, knowing that it will all end badly, and that everything is fatal, but who chooses to embrace life anyway, to balance the terror of being human against the joy of being human.
Joe Frank
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