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The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
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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It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
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I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
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I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.
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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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We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
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We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.
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Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
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