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To put failure behind you, face up to it.
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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A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
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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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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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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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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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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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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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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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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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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 say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
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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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What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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To resent and remember brings strife to forgive and forget brings peace.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J. B. Priestley
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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