“I’m even embarrassed to think about how hard others work” – Weekend – Kommersant
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125 years ago, on September 25, 1897, William Faulkner was born – a writer who mapped the fictional district of Yoknapatofa on the map of the South of the United States and studied the life of its inhabitants in the most thorough way. We re-read his interviews and letters and found out what attracted him to real people and what he thought about them.
one
I love snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he simply does not have the strength to interfere in other people’s affairs.
2
I don’t even feel comfortable thinking about how hard others work. It’s sad that they have to work 8 hours a day. Nobody eats 8 hours a day, drinks 8 hours a day, and makes love. You can only work 8 hours a day. That’s why everyone around is so miserable.
3
The best job that could be offered to me is the owner of a brothel. I think there is an ideal environment for creativity. Complete economic freedom, no feeling of fear or hunger, there is a roof over your head, and you don’t have to do anything.
four
People have many means to destroy themselves physically. But for the destruction of the spiritual, we now obviously have no more means than hundreds of years ago. The questions that man faces today are all the same problems that he faced when he first got on his feet.
5
Life does not care about good and evil. People in life spend time just to stay alive. Life is a movement, and only what makes a person act is important – ambitions, power, pleasures.
6
The time a person spends on remaining moral is taken away from the movement of which he is a part. He has to make a choice between good and evil, because this is required by a moral duty – in order to feel like a man the next day. His conscience is the curse of the gods, which he must accept in order to receive from them the right to dream.
7
People between 20 and 40 are unattractive. During this period, a person’s will grows stronger, he becomes dangerous, but he has not even come close to understanding things. A man becomes strong before he becomes moral. It was people in their 20s and 40s who brought suffering to the world. All those Hitlers and Napoleons, they were all between 20 and 40.
eight
Fear, like many other things, stems primarily from idleness, and if you have a business that you can do right away when you get up in the morning, there is no time left for fear. Of course, fears remain, but there is simply no time left to deal with them seriously.
9
I think that over time, any attack aircraft has to pay. No one punishes him, he is not incinerated by lightning from heaven, but he must live with himself, and the time comes when a person is forced to realize what he has done.
ten
A person has freedom of choice and the courage and courage to die for his choice – this is my idea of a person, and that is why I think that a person will endure.
eleven
It seems to me that the desire of a person to fight with his nature, with his conscience is worthy of genuine sympathy. That’s what deserves participation. Not that the person suffered.
12
I am inclined to think that the only “peace” that a person knows is the thought: my God, but yesterday I was happy!
13
Any scoundrel eventually comes to be seduced by respectability. It’s hard to say which person will stand, but he will, because there will always be someone who will fight the Snopes, who will seek to destroy them.
fourteen
I am convinced that a heroic moment will bring out the right people. Tragic is the fate of a person who did not have this moment, who could not become what he could be.
fifteen
I’m by no means sure that a book has to have a villain. If there is a negative character in the novel “When I was dying”, it is the conventions and rules that people are forced to follow. A dying woman asks to be buried 20 miles from her home. People suffer only because, in order to deliver her there, they drag her body through fire and water only in order to fulfill her last desire, which for herself no longer meant anything.
16
Personally, I come to the conclusion that it is impossible to establish connections with the outside world. Perhaps I will eventually come to some form of self-communication.
17
It’s sad to realize that an entire generation must spend their lives, waking hours anyway, wondering if they’ll be alive tomorrow. However, this is a temporary phenomenon. I think that over the years, people will worry less and less about the possibility of an accidental unleashing of a nuclear war.
eighteen
War is too terrible a price to pay for life experience. The only positive side of war, as far as I know, is that it allows men to get rid of their women without being blacklisted for it.
19
The force that drives the writer is his consciousness that soon, in seventy years, he will turn into nothing, plunge into eternal oblivion. Therefore, he strives to leave behind at least the inscription “Kilroy was here.”
twenty
I want to be erased from history as a private person, so that I would not exist for it, would leave no trace of history, no memory of myself, except for published books. I am very sorry that 30 years ago I could not yet foresee the future: you just had to not sign your things, as the Elizabethans did.
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