V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
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I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
