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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.

J. B. Priestley

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J. B. Priestley
Age: 89 †
Born: 1894
Born: September 13
Died: 1984
Died: August 14
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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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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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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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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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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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Western man is schizophrenic.
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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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The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.
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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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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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