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

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
Life and Living
V. S. Pritchett

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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
Nationalities and Nationalism
V. S. Pritchett

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The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
Books - Bestsellers
V. S. Pritchett

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The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
Committees and Meetings
V. S. Pritchett

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun