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How Easy Life Is When It's Easy, And How Hard When It's Hard.

The Question To Ask About The Writer Isn't 'why Does He Behave So Badly?' But 'what Does He Gain By Wearing This Mask?

He Is Not Simply Looking Into The Mirror Because He Is Transfixed By What He Sees. Rather, The Artist’s Success Depends As Much As Anything On His Powers Of Detachment, On De-narcissizing Himself… Freud… Studied His Own Dreams Not Because He Was A “narcissist,” But Because He Was A Student Of Dreams. And Whose Were At Once The Least And Most Accessible Of Dreams, If Not His Own?

Literature Got Me Into This Mess And Literature Is Going To Have To Get Me Out Of It.

A Writer Has To Be Driven Crazy To Help Him To See. A Writer Needs His Poisons.