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The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
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 peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
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