All J. B. Priestley Quotes
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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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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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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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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