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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
She was determined to put behind her the madness of the past-or as much as a vulnerable and memory-racked mind permitted-
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
Somehow I still could not believe that this life we all have together would ever be changed.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
But I could tell from the way his muscles become stiff and this trembling that ran through him that he was finished with me. Even so I couldn't stop.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
She had not planned to weep-it was the last thing from her mind, a display of mawkish weakness-but she could not help it.
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William Styron _ Darkness Visible: A Memoir of
For me the real healers were seclusion and time.
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
What causes human beings to inflict upon themselves these stupid little scissor snips of unhappy remembrance?
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" And the answer: "Where was man?
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
they appeared from where I stood as peaceful as two lovers who had gaily costumed themselves for an afternoon stroll, but on impulse had decided to lie down and nap, or kiss and make love, or merely whisper to each other of fond matters, and were frozen in this grave and tender embrace forever.
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William Styron _ The Confessions of Nat Turner
-retaining the other half for yourself in savings for the future. Thereupon, at Mr. Pemberton's good report of your labor-and again I have no doubt that this might be anything but exemplary-I shall draw up the papers for your emancipation. You will then at the age of twenty-five be a free man." He paused and gave my shoulder a soft nudge with his gloved fist, adding: "I shall only stipulate that you return to Turner's Mill for a visit every blue moon or two-with whichever young darky girl you have taken for a wife!
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William Styron _ Sophie's Choice
O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles...
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William Styron _ Darkness Visible: A Memoir of
In the middle of the journey of our lifeI found myself in a dark wood,For I had lost the right path.
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