Corjan

“Even those who don't like rugby, due to whatever deficiency in their characters, are watching today.”
― Damon Galgut, The Promise

“Other people are our stumbling blocks and hurdles, our impediments and obstructions – they are sent to try us. And yet, left untried, left to our longed-for solitude – with no one to witness our many hypocrisies – how easily we deceive ourselves!”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud

“(...) to wish oneself into another's glory, as boy or as man, is an impossibility, untenable on psychological grounds if you are not a writer, and on aesthetic grounds if you are.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral