William Styron Quotes

What This Country Needs ... What This Great Land Of Ours Needs Is Something To Happen To It. Something Ferocious And Tragic, Like What Happened To Jericho Or The Cities Of The Plain - Something Terrible I Mean, Son, So That When The People Have Been Through Hellfire And The Crucible, And Have Suffered Agony Enough And Grief, They'll Be People Again, Human Beings, Not A Bunch Of Smug Contented Cows Rooting At The Trough.

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