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TennesseeWilliams – The Catastrophe of Success

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

Tennessee Williams in “Camino Real”

These words became his epitaph

Tennessee Williams • “The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” – Barnstorming

Not Sunday afternoon. I’ve asked you to go out with me sometimes on Sundays but you always make an excuse. You never want to go out till after six and then it’s always some place that’s not lighted much.

Tennessee Williams • A Streetcar Named Desire (Penguin Modern Classics)

…a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a leaf, a stone, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb, we did not know our mother’s face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into... See more

Stephen King • The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned

Sarah Perry • Enlightenment

A Streetcar Named Desire (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Clean Old-fashioned Hate

Tom Wolfe • A Man in Full: A Novel

something unsuspected within her, some instinct, made her call him back when he started to go out the door, made her speak quickly and desperately, as she had never spoken before, and as she would never speak again.

John McGahern • Stoner

I have no home but all the ingredients of home.