Joy Williams

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“Now no joy but lacks salt
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one—and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)