V. S. Pritchett Quotes

1900-, British Author, Critic
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“The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.”
Committees and Meetings
“Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.”
VerifiedMidnight Oil (1971) · evidenceLife and Living
“The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.”
Nationalities and Nationalism
“In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.”
Family
“The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.”
Books: Bestsellers
“Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.”
Youth