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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.
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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Literary Critic
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Bradford
Yorkshire
John Boynton Priestley
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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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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.
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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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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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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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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith
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A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?
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To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
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Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.
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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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To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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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 show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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