Guardarsi indietro neanche per prendere la rincorsa.
Don't look back, not even to take a run-up.
Info & reflection: Sorrentino quotes it while explaining that he is no longer melancholic, nostalgic or grieving: "I didn't process it, I just got tired. Processing takes an intelligence I don't have." Pazienza's line is the radical version of the same principle: don't look back, not even for one useful second. The run-up is already an excuse to stand still. Pazienza was a cartoonist and illustrator who died at 32; the line weighs differently once you know that.