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For a person whose sole burnin...

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

William Styron 73 quotes

I think that the best of my ge...

I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.

William Styron 73 quotes

Most books, like their authors...

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

William Styron 73 quotes

I felt the exultancy of a man ...

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

William Styron 73 quotes

Writers ever since writing beg...

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

William Styron 73 quotes

When, in the autumn of 1947, I...

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

William Styron 73 quotes

I have learned to cry again an...

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.

William Styron 73 quotes

The pain is unrelenting; one d...

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

William Styron 73 quotes

Which is worse, past or future...

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

William Styron 73 quotes

What this country needs... wha...

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.

William Styron 73 quotes

The good writing of any age ha...

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

William Styron 73 quotes

In the absence of hope we must...

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

William Styron 73 quotes

I think that one of the compel...

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

William Styron 73 quotes

The writer's duty is to keep o...

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

William Styron 73 quotes

I get a fine warm feeling when...

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.

William Styron 73 quotes

I felt myself no longer a husk...

I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body's sweet juices stirring again. I had my first dream in many months, confused but to this day imperishable, with a flute in it somewhere, and a wild goose, and a dancing girl.

William Styron 73 quotes

Writing is a fine therapy for ...

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

William Styron 73 quotes

I thought there's something to...

I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

William Styron 73 quotes

The pain of depression is quit...

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.

William Styron 73 quotes

[However], the sufferer from d...

[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one 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.

William Styron 73 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....