The artist's only responsibili...

The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"" is worth any number of old ladies.
~Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958~

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