V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
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I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
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People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
