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Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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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Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.
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We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
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