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J. B. Priestley has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle…
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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…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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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…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
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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…
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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…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…
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All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true…
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Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a…
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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…
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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is…
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People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of…
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Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and…
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Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you…
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It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard…
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