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.
Life ā how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. - V. S. Pritchett
Life ā how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
- 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
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
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.
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else. - V. S. Pritchett
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
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
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
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¦ - V. S. Pritchett
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¦
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10. - V. S. Pritchett
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
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
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.
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. - V. S. Pritchett
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
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