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Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.
— Price Pritchett
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
— V.S. Pritchett
Act as if success is certain.
— Price Pritchett
Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
— V.S. Pritchett
You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.
— Price Pritchett
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
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
— V.S. Pritchett
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
— V.S. Pritchett
As tough as it sometimes looks on the front end, it's easier to do right than undo wrong.
— Price Pritchett
Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.
— Price Pritchett
Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.
— Price Pritchett
Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
— Price Pritchett
Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.
— Price Pritchett
We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
— V.S. Pritchett
Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.
— William Zinsser
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
— V.S. Pritchett
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
— V.S. Pritchett
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
— V.S. Pritchett
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
— V.S. Pritchett
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
— V.S. Pritchett
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
— V.S. Pritchett
If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.
— Price Pritchett
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
— V.S. Pritchett
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
— V.S. Pritchett
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
— V.S. Pritchett
You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.
— Price Pritchett
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.
— V.S. Pritchett
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.
— V.S. Pritchett
There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
— V.S. Pritchett
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.
— Price Pritchett
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
— V.S. Pritchett
quietness has a strange, buzzing hum that can nearly break you apart.
— Laura Pritchett
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
— V.S. Pritchett
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
— V.S. Pritchett
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
— V.S. Pritchett
Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.
— V.S. Pritchett
We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.
— V.S. Pritchett
It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?
— V.S. Pritchett
We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game ... we've got to play a good game.
— Price Pritchett
It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.
— V.S. Pritchett
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
— Price Pritchett
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
— V.S. Pritchett
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
— V.S. Pritchett
No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.
— Price Pritchett
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
— V.S. Pritchett
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.
— V.S. Pritchett
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
— V.S. Pritchett
Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.
— Price Pritchett
If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?
— Price Pritchett
