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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.
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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John Boynton Priestley
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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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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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To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
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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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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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