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

He was particularly known for his short stories collected in a number of volumes. Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett CH CBE (16 December 1900 – 20 March 1997) was a British writer and critic. His most famous nonfiction works are the memoirs A Cab at the Door (1968) and Midnight Oil (1971) and his many collections of essays on literary biography and criticism.