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Expatriation is often beneficial, as a stage in which the writer cuts adrift from irritating influences. It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. It gives them breathing space in which to free
themselves..."How narrow is the line," as Nicolson wrote of Byron's last journey,
"which separates an adventure from an ordeal, and escape from
exile."
-- Cyril Connolly
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