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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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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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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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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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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 show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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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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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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