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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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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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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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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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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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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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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 you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
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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 put failure behind you, face up to it.
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The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.
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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.
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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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