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Quotes from The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers — V. S. Pritchett

1900–1997 England

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The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.

The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers (1979)

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers (1979)

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