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  • Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

    Quoted in Faulkner in the University, ed. Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner (1959)