There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk, and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod and frown and, God help him, even smile. But it is a fierce trial attempting to speak a few simple words.
William StyronTags: depression desperation
I hate this type of unearned unhappiness.
William StyronReading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
William StyronA great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
William StyronThrough some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor. This did not make him anything special, but at least he was good-natured.
William StyronHe was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and evenly, and this, he knew, was for him a minor sort of tragedy.
William StyronWriting for me is the hardest thing in the world, but also a thing which, once completed, is the most satisfying. ... I am no prodigy but, Fate willing, I think I can produce art.
William StyronThe pain of severe 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.
William StyronTags: darkness depression visible william memoir-of-madness severe-depression styron
No, I wasn't trying to make Nat Turner look stupid. I was trying to make him more human. More like me. Angry, impotent, confused about his own sexuality. Wait a minute, that didn't come out right. Is that microphone really on?
William StyronTags: literary-criticism
I never said I hated the Marine Corps! I only said it was no place for a sensitive, civilized, self-respecting human being.
William StyronTags: marine-corps
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