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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.
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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Yorkshire
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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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To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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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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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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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 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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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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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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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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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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