"The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they……" — V. S. Pritchett
"The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life."
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21 Quotes by V. S. Pritchett
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- Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and…
- [London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor…
- 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…
- Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
- 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.
- Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a…
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