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V S Pritchett Inspirational Quotes (47)

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There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
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I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.
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A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.
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We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.
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A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
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The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
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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.
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It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
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The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.
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The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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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.
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The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
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We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
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It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.
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Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
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Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
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Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
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Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
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