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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.
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 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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Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
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Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
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