William Styron Quotes

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

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• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

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• What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

  

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• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

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• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  

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• At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

  

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• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

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• I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

  

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• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

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• Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.

  

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• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

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• By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

  

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• Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.

  

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  • Great
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• Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

  

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• The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

  

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• The publishing industry stopped having new ideas out of respect for the untimely death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 and has been doing everything the same way ever since.

  

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• As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean energy economy of the future. As we all know, the best way to reduce our deficit and bring down our debt is by putting Americans back to work.

  

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• Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

  

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• If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He may endure extreme hunger for a week, and extreme cold for a day, but extreme fear may undo him an hour. There is no way of guarding against this greatest danger except by assuring him that he is fortified against the other two.

  

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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.

  

  William Styron
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Bed