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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J. B. Priestley
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J. B. Priestley
Age: 89 †
Born: 1894
Born: September 13
Died: 1984
Died: August 14
Journalist
Librettist
Literary Critic
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Bradford
Yorkshire
John Boynton Priestley
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
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A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.
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The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.
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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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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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To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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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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If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.
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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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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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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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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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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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Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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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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