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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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The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
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A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
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The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
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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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