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A great book should leave you with many experiences.

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.
Leave
Book
Many
Great
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Experiences

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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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Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.
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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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Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.
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Let's face it, writing is hell.
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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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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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we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.
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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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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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Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
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This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.
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I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body's sweet juices stirring again. I had my first dream in many months, confused but to this day imperishable, with a flute in it somewhere, and a wild goose, and a dancing girl.
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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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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We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
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The weather of Depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout.
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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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Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.
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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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