Spend His Life Quotes by V. S. Pritchett

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• The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
• Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more…
• [London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but…
• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
• All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often…
• Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
• The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
• It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.
• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
• Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
• Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

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