All J. B. Priestley Quotes
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
J. B. Priestley
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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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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
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When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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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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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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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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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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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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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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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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