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J B Priestley Inspirational Quotes (45)

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The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.
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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
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No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?
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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
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Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
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Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.
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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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