V. S. Pritchett Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of
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I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.
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Some small ones learn to stitch together a Coat of Scowls or a Scarf of Jokes to hide their Hearts. Some hammer up a Fort of Books to protect theirs.
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
