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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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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Bradford
Yorkshire
John Boynton Priestley
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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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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.
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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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To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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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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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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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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Western man is schizophrenic.
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