Living and creating are the same ability

Eliseo 2022-04-23 07:05:52

Literature is a master, I am a cat, I only want to sleep at his feet.

Literature is a glass of water, and I am a dried flower. Only when I am immersed in the water will the petals slowly spread out and appear as a flower should look like.

Literature is like an electrified museum. I am a hard, ugly metal. Only by entering that museum can I gain electricity and a soul.

The more you read the classics, the more you feel like you don't need to write, I mean the kind of writing that has a place in time. But at the same time, I feel that I need to write. When I look back at the end of my life, I don't want to see my whole life as empty as a piece of sand.

Everyone desires immortality, but that is not the ultimate goal. If I write, it's just because I want to, and life doesn't seem worth living if I don't.

Camus said: "Life and creation are not two talents, but the same ability. And we are sure that the kind of talent that can only produce superficial works can only support a light life."—— (Camus "Camus Notes 3")

Don't blame yourself for not being able to write immortal works, blame yourself for living a shallow life.

——Written after watching "Genius Catcher 2016".

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Genius quotes

  • Maxwell Evarts Perkins: [looking at the three cates containing the manuscript of Thomas Wolfe's new book] This - is Of Time and the River? Well done. Now go home and get some sleep.

    Thomas Wolfe: I... I...

    Maxwell Evarts Perkins: Let me read it.

    Thomas Wolfe: Read it kindly. Please.

  • Thomas Wolfe: I'm sorry I'm not decent enough for your fine dinner parties and your fine friends, but before you drag me out to the wood shed, I think you ought to look at who is giving the lesson. Am I supposed to grow up like you?

    Maxwell Evarts Perkins: No, Tom, but you're supposed to grow up.

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