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Western man is schizophrenic.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Bradford
Yorkshire
John Boynton Priestley
J Priestley
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Men
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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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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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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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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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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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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
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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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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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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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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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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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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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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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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J. B. Priestley
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?
J. B. Priestley
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.
J. B. Priestley
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
J. B. Priestley
To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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