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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.
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
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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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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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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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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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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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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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'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?
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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 love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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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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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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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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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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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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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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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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