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V. S. Pritchett
British
Writer
About the author
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett,
British
Writer
#Guilt
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. Pritchett,
British
Writer
#Life
#Habit
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. Pritchett,
British
Writer
#American
#Spirit
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. Pritchett,
British
Writer
#Happiness
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett,
British
Writer
#Time
#Youth
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. Pritchett,
British
Writer
#Family
#Myth