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The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
— V.S. Pritchett
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
— V.S. Pritchett
Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.
— 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
It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.
— 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
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
— V.S. Pritchett
There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
— 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 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 are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.
— 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
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
— V.S. Pritchett
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
— V.S. Pritchett
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
— V.S. Pritchett
quietness has a strange, buzzing hum that can nearly break you apart.
— Laura Pritchett
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
— V.S. Pritchett
