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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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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small…
— William Carlos Williams
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Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live…
— Holmes Rolston III
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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…
— J. B. Priestley
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In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.
— Susan Sontag
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We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did,…
— John of Salisbury
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Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more…
— Terry Pratchett
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The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll…
— Kofi Annan
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Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich…
— J M Coetzee
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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
— Bernard of Chartres
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