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To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.
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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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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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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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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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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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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Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.
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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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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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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.
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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.
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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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