William Styron Quotes
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
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And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
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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 "the fleas of life"-you…
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