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title: "2 Advertisement Quotes By J. B. Priestley"
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> [Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/living-in-an-age-of-advertisement-we-are-perpetually-disillusioned/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/living-in-an-age-of-advertisement-we-are-perpetually-disillusioned-2/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

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## Other authors on Advertisement

## More by J. B. Priestley

> [In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/in-a-world-shaped-and-colored-more-and-more-by-politicians-the/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/many-a-man-is-praised-for-his-reserve-and-so-called-shyness-when-he/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/to-make-the-most-of-christmas-focus-on-christ/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/a-novelist-who-writes-nothing-for-10-years-finds-his-reputation/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/to-show-a-child-what-once-delighted-you-to-find-the-child-s-delight/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/the-first-fall-of-snow-is-not-only-an-event-it-is-a-magical-event-you/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/i-fancy-that-the-hell-of-too-many-people-would-occupy-a-respectable/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/it-is-good-fiction-so-largely-ignored-now-that-brings-us-so-much/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/i-have-always-been-delighted-at-the-prospect-of-a-new-day-a-fresh-try/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/perhaps-it-would-be-better-not-to-be-a-writer-but-if-you-must-then/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/what-a-grand-higgledy-piggledy-sensible-old-place-norwich-is/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/man-the-creature-who-knows-he-must-die-who-has-dreams-larger-than-his/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/there-are-plenty-of-clever-young-writers-but-there-is-too-much-genius/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/if-you-are-a-genius-you-ll-make-your-own-rules-but-if-not-and-the/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

> [But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-priestley/but-some-of-us-are-beginning-to-pull-well-away-in-our-irritation-from/)

[J. B. Priestley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-priestley/)

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