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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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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John Boynton Priestley
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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