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The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers.

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Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

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To be identified with the public is the divine gift of the best-sellers in popular Romance and, no doubt, in popular realism. E. M. Forster once spoke of the novelist as sending down a bucket into the unconscious; the author of She installed a suction pump. He drained the whole reservoir of the public's secret desires. Critics speak of the reader suspending unbelief; the best-seller knows better; man is a believing animal.

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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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V. S. Pritchett

V. S. Pritchett

Born: December 16, 1900
Died: March 20, 1997 (aged 96)
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