V. S. Pritchett's Quotes

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Frequently communities will get too parochial, whether it's researchers or business people or any other group. They'll tend to just keep seeing the same people they see all of the time.