Ancient Quote by William Styron

“Until that moment, although I’d had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not…

— William Styron

“The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino…

— Anonymous

“This was him, an earnest health-care professional, lovesick and concerned, the sort of foolish heart who had told the policeman that he’d drive right…

— Charles Graeber

“It was mad. It was inconceivable. Anthony began to detect in himself the symptoms of a disease he had sworn never to acquire--lovesickness--and thus…

— Dominique Frost

I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his…

— John Aubrey

“With brief amusement, she recalled how she'd assumed a rogue of his decadent reputation would be pale and weak from too many late nights,…

— Anna Campbell

“his eyes burning with the unspeakable torture of his impotence. His hands had refused once more to produce anything clear or lifelike (45)”

— Émile Zola

“This will not do,' he said to himself. 'If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must stop! I…

— Bram Stoker

“The part of his mind that considered odds and consequences had shut down entirely, snuffed by the sheer adrenal rush of holding her, falling…

— Jerry Stahl

“It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Such frankness, even over good tidings, was a further offense to Mr. Fremlin. He felt that it was casual and indecent. Like most countrymen,…

— Dennis Parry

“The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had sincerely tried many of them. He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had…

— George Eliot