“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”
Source: The Devotion of Suspect X
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“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us.”
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, all of us. Proof of that is that there are about three candidates for the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. But what is important is Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, not who wrote them, but that somebody did. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn’t have needed anyone since.

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
On the cultural sacrifices made by African Americans in higher classes in “Playwright August Wilson on Writing About Black America” https://billmoyers.com/story/august-wilson-on-writing-about-black-america/ (Bill Moyers, 1988)

Source: Good Will Hunting