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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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Read
Funny
Good
Wickedly
Bracing
Satire
Morally

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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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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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The weather of Depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout.
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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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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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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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Let your love flow out on all living things.
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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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I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
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We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
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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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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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Most books, like their authors, are born to die of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them they live, and their influence lives forever.
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I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.
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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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The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.
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It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
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Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
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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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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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