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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.
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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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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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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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 love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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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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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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