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V S Pritchett Quotes

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The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel  (V S Pritchett Quotes) The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony  (V S Pritchett Quotes) The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists  (V S Pritchett Quotes) Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better  (V S Pritchett Quotes) It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature’s latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful  (V S Pritchett Quotes) The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life  (V S Pritchett Quotes) Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere  (V S Pritchett Quotes) Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing  (V S Pritchett Quotes) It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening  (V S Pritchett Quotes) The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature  (V S Pritchett Quotes) It’s all in the art. You get no credit for living  (V S Pritchett Quotes) Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind  (V S Pritchett Quotes) Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience  (V S Pritchett Quotes) I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30  (V S Pritchett Quotes) Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere  (V S Pritchett Quotes) The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive  (V S Pritchett Quotes) I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10  (V S Pritchett Quotes) We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness  (V S Pritchett Quotes) One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential  (V S Pritchett Quotes) There is more magic in sin if it is not committed  (V S Pritchett Quotes) It’s very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I’m being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me  (V S Pritchett Quotes) Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women  (V S Pritchett Quotes) The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed  (V S Pritchett Quotes) Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story  (V S Pritchett Quotes) We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are  (V S Pritchett Quotes) The mark of genius is an incessant activity of the mind. Genius is spiritual greed  (V S Pritchett Quotes) A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale  (V S Pritchett Quotes) How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit  (V S Pritchett Quotes) The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers  (V S Pritchett Quotes) It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened  (V S Pritchett Quotes)
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