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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
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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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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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To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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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 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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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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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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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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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 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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I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
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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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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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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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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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