The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees. - V. S. Pritchett

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I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!

V. S. Pritchett

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

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

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Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

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It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

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The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

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While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

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For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

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Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

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