"my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world."

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Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

William Styron

#Brain Quotes #World Quotes #Panic Quotes

“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”
“No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is our character, not our orthodoxy. Whether we, our neighbor, or God is the judge, absolutely the only value of our religious life to ourselves or to anyone is what it fits us for and enables us to do.”
“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.”

Source : 1968 Couples, ch.5.
“Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity”
“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go”
“Salt, gathered from the tears of a thousand angels, restraining the essence of Sammael, the Hellhound. The Seed of Destruction. This I can promise, Sammael, for every one of you that falls, two shall arise.”
“Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).”
“My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.”

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