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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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Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage…
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Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.
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Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I…
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When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.
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Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the…
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Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each,…
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.
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I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much…
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as…
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I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant…
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
— J. B. Priestley
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