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Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
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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It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
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A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
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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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Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
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All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
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Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
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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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The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
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[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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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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Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.
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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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It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent but there is talent in the tongues.
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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 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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