In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Family
Life—how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Life and Living
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Nationalities, Nationalism, Nationality, Nation, Canada
The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Committees
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Youth
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Happiness
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
—V. S. Pritchett
Topics: Books
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
—V. S. Pritchett
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) British Short Story Writer
- William H. Gass American Novelist
- Eudora Welty American Short Story Writer
- Anton Chekhov Russian Short Story Writer
- Damon Runyon American Writer, Journalist
- Andre Dubus American Short Story Writer
- Katherine Mansfield British Author
- Gladys Bronwyn Stern British Novelist
- Graham Greene British Novelist
- Rudyard Kipling British Children’s Books Writer
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