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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
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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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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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.
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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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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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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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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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Western man is schizophrenic.
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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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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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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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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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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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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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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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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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