I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born. Clive Barker
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In the quote, the speaker is talking about how he has always been interested in writing and storytelling, and was inspired by his favorite writers, such as Ernest Hemingway. The speaker is a writer, and feels that this is a gift from God. The speaker also feels that his stories are important to him, as they help him to come to grips with his own life. Overall, the speaker feels that our lives are somehow incomplete without a final story that explains them.

Source: Sacrament

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