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“No labour was more Heraclean than the labour of being Heracles.”
― Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

“There are two types of coaches. There’s coaches like me who weigh up the opposition and ask the team to adjust. Fergie was similar. José [Mourinho] is similar. Then there’s Arsène, who won’t adjust. There’s Brendan [Rodgers], who looks like he won’t adjust. There’s Manuel Pellegrini, who looks like he won’t adjust … their philosophy is different to ours. Ours is more about who are we playing against. Their philosophy is more, “We always play this way,” and they won’t change, they carry on doing the same thing. That’s why you can beat them.”
― Michael Cox, The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines

“Second, and even more impressively, they became the first side in top-flight history to score in every league game, a record that’s been unfairly – if understandably – overshadowed by the Invincibles campaign.”
― Michael Cox, The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines

“The crest is meant to resemble a gold seal on white stationery, I believe, but it looks remarkably like a urine stain on a bedsheet,”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Hod King

“A man may rot like an egg: His shell does not show it, but all that is within him has gone foul.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Hod King

“BLANCHE: You see I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded. There was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn’t like a man’s, although he wasn’t the least bit effeminate-looking – still – that thing was there … He came to me for help. I didn’t know that. I didn’t find out anything till after our marriage when we’d run away and come back and all I knew was I’d failed him in some mysterious way and wasn’t able to give the help he needed but couldn’t speak of! He was in the quicksands and clutching at me – but I wasn’t holding him out, I was slipping in with him! I didn’t know that. I didn’t know anything except I loved him unendurably but without being able to help him or help myself. Then I found out. In”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Whoever you are – I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Writers of history often seek the dramatic over the truth. It is a failing of the profession.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner