V. S. Pritchett
V. S. Pritchett
Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett CH CBE, was a British writer and literary critic...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 December 1900
atlanta hurt lane passing took turn
Our turnovers really hurt us tonight. They (Greater Atlanta Christian) took away our passing lane and were able to turn those turnovers into points.
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We knew Model was a good team and were going to be able to go on some runs, but our girls played tough tonight.
like-love superstitions peculiar
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
novelists shows happened
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
guilt sin feels
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
humorous hopeless uncouth
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
natural tense native
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.