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Let your love flow out on all living things.

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
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Flow
Living
Things
Love

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Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.
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When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.
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Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences.
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The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
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Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.
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The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
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Let's face it, writing is hell.
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Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.
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In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.
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Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.
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The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me into bed.
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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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My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
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I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.
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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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Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
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This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.
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