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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.
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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Literary Critic
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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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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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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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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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In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.
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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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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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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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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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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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To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
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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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