I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think
that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you
to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to
pass through it, but to live in it. To
look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take
chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the
moment.
And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell
you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do
there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the
tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there
is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.
Joan Didion
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