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Quotes from This Quiet Dust and Other Writings — William Styron

1925–2006 United States

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Even today, many otherwise well-informed people have never heard the name Nat Turner.

This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (1982)

Numberless factors shape one's needs and longings.

This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (1982)

He informed me that one could not become a writer without a great deal of reading. To write one must read, he repeated, read . . .

This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (1982)

Camus's great essay "Reflections on the Guillotine" was alone almost enough - in its persuasive logic and eloquence - to make me an enemy of capital punishment.

This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (1982)

The Shabaka [Sundiata Waglini] story illuminates the most sordid defects of capital punishment. His blackness and poverty helped doom him. He was ruthlessly cheated; it was never his privilege to be granted - even for a phantom crime - the incarceration [i.e. instead of death row] that it meted out to others and that carries the possibility of redemption.

This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (1982)

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