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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
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Bradford
Yorkshire
John Boynton Priestley
J Priestley
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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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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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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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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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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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To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
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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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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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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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I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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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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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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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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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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I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
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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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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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