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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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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Yorkshire
John Boynton Priestley
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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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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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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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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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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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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 know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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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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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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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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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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