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Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

William Styron

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William Styron
Age: 81 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 11
Died: 2006
Died: November 1
Military Personnel
Novelist
Writer
Newport News
Virginia
William Clark Styron
Jr.
Absolute
Loneliness
Library
State
Reading
Keep
States
Best
Absolutes

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I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.
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I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.
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We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
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For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
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In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
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It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.
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The pain is unrelenting one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
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The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
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What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
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