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‘I believe the present matters—not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms—a false perspective.’
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“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

Stephen Fry
“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

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

John  Williams
“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

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