society belong seems dying already dead. don’t mean sound dramatic, cl — Anne Lamott, Bird Bird: Instructions Writing Life

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The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are.

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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