“The basic fact about human existence
is not that it is a tragedy,
but that it is a bore.
It is not so much a war,
as an endless standing in line.”
~ H.L. Mencken
Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and scholar of American English. Known as the “Sage of Baltimore”, he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century…source
