ambition
"Like my friends at drama school, my head was full of schemes and fantasies. I have always been impressed by people who live with deliberation; but ambition, or desire in the world, makes me apprehensive. I am afraid of what I want, of where it might take me, and what it might make others think of me.
Yet, as Florence explains, how are cathedrals and banks built, diseases eliminated, dictators crushed, football matches won - without frustration and the longing to overcome it?"
- Hanif Kureishi
Yet, as Florence explains, how are cathedrals and banks built, diseases eliminated, dictators crushed, football matches won - without frustration and the longing to overcome it?"
- Hanif Kureishi