The fact about contemporaries is that they’re doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong way- something like that: from timidity, partly, one keeps one’s eyes on one’s own road.

The fact about contemporaries is that they’re doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong way- something like that: from timidity, partly, one keeps one’s eyes on one’s own road.

– Virginia Woolf –

The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Four, 1929-1931

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