The ghosts that exert the most power in people__ lives-at least, the people I know__end to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It__ the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.
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Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It__ the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.
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