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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.
Good
Wickedly
Bracing
Satire
Morally
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Funny

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The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
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Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
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A great book should leave you with many experiences.
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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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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
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Let your love flow out on all living things.
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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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Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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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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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
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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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I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
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It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
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In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
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We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
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Let's face it, writing is hell.
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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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my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.
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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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