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Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz.

— William Styron Sophie's Choice (1979)

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It could be all unwittingly that I wrote in Darkness Visible what amounted to a Rosetta stone for my other work.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

Writers at Work (1958)

Surely mankind has yet to be born. Surely this is true!

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

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

This Quiet Dust and Other Writings (1982)

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