Greta Garbo. "Whatever Happened to Mystery?" By Ben Brantley.

"It was the last day of 1985, on an afternoon steeped in that merciless brightness you associate with early winter in the city, and, suddenly, there she was: a bulky fur coat, a knitted watch cap and an unpainted face, as closed as a fist, behind big sunglasses that had no aspiration to trendiness.

If you didn’t know who she was, she was nothing special. She didn’t look chic, not even rich, amid the well-buffed, well-tailored women with big shopping bags and little dogs. But Miss Garbo had on something none of those ladies could afford: She was wearing six decades’ worth of well-documented silence."

"Whatever Happened to Mystery?" By Ben Brantley. The New York Times. Published July 16,2010. 

  

"Les Misérables" Victor Hugo (Page 621)

"Jusqu'à ce que l'ordre, qui n'est autre chose que la paix universelle, soit établi, jusqu'à ce que l'harmonie et l'unité règnent, le progrès aura pour étapes les révolutions."

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Loneliness. Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (page 99)

"(..) let me say, now, that he relieved me, during that period, of my greatest affliction, which is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like my shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights... "


Tennessee Williams: Memoirs

Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (page 92)

 "After the success of Menagerie, as I've said before, I felt a great depression, probably because I never believed that anything would continue, would hold. I never thought my advance would maintain its ground. I always thought there would be a collapse immediately after the advance. Also, I had spent so much of my energy on the climb of success, that when I had "made it" and my play was "the hottest ticket in town", I felt almost no satisfaction." Page 92. Chapter 6