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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.
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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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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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
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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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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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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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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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