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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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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Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive...
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The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
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It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
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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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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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The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
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Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.
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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.