It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the… — V. S. Pritchett Excess Copy Share Image
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is… — V. S. Pritchett Business Copy Share Image
The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It… — V. S. Pritchett Depressing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else. — V. S. Pritchett Authors Copy Share Image
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were… — V. S. Pritchett Aliens Copy Share Image
