When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
“After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.”
“You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.”