In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
– V. S. Pritchett
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
– V. S. Pritchett
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity, it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.
– V. S. Pritchett
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
– V. S. Pritchett
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers.
– V. S. Pritchett
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
– V. S. Pritchett
The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
– V. S. Pritchett
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.