William Styron
William Styron
William Clark Styron Jr.was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 June 1925
CityNewport News, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.
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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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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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What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.
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It did not occur to me that there would be many difficulties to impede my ambition. . . .
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Basically it is a very politically incorrect book written by a white man trying to seize his own interpretation and put it into the soul and heart of a black man.
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And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
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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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They are the constants of life, at the core of life, along with nice little delights that come along every now and then . . . we all have them.
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In America there seems to be an idea that writing is one big cat-and-dog fight between the various parishioners of the craft.
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I could compose on white sheets, in longhand, but it would be an added handicap. . . .
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A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
book exhausted good leave lives reading several slightly
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
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The madness of depression is 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.