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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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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Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
John Boynton Priestley
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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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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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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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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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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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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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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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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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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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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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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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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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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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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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