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V. S. Pritchett Quotes: The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.
         

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.


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Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.



If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.



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Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.



Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.



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

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



No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.



Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.



The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.



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Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.



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