Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
“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.”
“I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.”