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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.
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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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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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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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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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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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.
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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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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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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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