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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
J. B. Priestley
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J. B. Priestley
Age: 89 †
Born: 1894
Born: September 13
Died: 1984
Died: August 14
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Bradford
Yorkshire
John Boynton Priestley
J Priestley
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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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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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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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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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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
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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 love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.
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