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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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You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
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How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in…
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Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
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An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.
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The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly…
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Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
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No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
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