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Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

V. S. Pritchett

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V. S. Pritchett
Age: 96 †
Born: 1900
Born: December 16
Died: 1997
Died: March 20
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Ipswich (parish)
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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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We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
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The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
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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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