Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. – V. S. Pritchett
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. – V. S. Pritchett
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. – V. S. Pritchett
Life – how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. – V. S. Pritchett
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. – V. S. Pritchett