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The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.

V. S. Pritchett
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Life ā€” how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

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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.

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It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

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I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lā€¦

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I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

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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.

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