But love in marriage was seen as a bonus, not as a necessity. The great Roman statesman Cicero exchanged many loving letters with his wife, Terentia, during their thirty-year marriage. But that didn’t stop him from divorcing her when she was no longer able to support him in the style to which he had become accustomed.16

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.

I promise to be as careful as a pussycat walking up a slippery roof,

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion,

Written By Bill Bryson

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