“It is essential for people who practice no regular profession to take long holidays from their own lives. A man who goes regularly to work is in a strong position. From the moment he leaves his home in the morning until he returns there at night he is completely free from his domestic and social life. He is living among other men and business associates and absorbed in a pursuit quite alien to his family and personal interests. But men of leisure and writers are alike in this, that they never have a separation of interests. Their relationship with friends and relations and the routine of their day are invariable and interconnected. The more irritable have to get away or go off their heads.”
Evelyn Waugh, “Travel—and Escape from Your Friends”
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