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For over seventy-five years the word has slithered through the language like a slug, leaving little trace of its intrinsic malevolence and preventing, by its very insipidity, a general awareness of the horrible intensity of the disease when out of control.
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Depression is a wimp of a word for a howling tempest in the brain.
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Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word — life. Certainly this might be an age of so-called faithlessness and despair we live in, but the new writers haven't cornered any market on faithlessness and despair, any more than Dostoyevsky or Marlowe or Sophocles did.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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William Styron
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June 11, 1925
Died:
November 1, 2006
(aged 81)
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