"No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it."

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And I felt more like me than I ever had, as if the years I'd lived so far had formed layers of skin and muscle over myself that others saw as me when the real one had been underneath all along, and I knew writing- even writing badly- had peeled away those layers, and I knew then that if I wanted to stay awake and alive, if I wanted to stay me, I would have to keep writing.

— Andre Dubus