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Home Alone A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Polly, June 29, 2013

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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

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