I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s duty is to write about these things. … The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
— William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
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My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier you’ll be a general; if you become a monk you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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