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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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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if…
— Margaret Atwood
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
— Mary J. Blige
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old pear tree starlings announce harvest time
— Unknown Author
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He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the…
— Andrew Jackson Downing
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Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a…
— Drake
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In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend,…
— David Bowie
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A pear is a failed apple.
— George Carlin
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.
— Mao Zedong
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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose…
— Meister Eckhart
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Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light…
— Denise Levertov
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In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.
— Stephen Moyer
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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a…
— Ani DiFranco
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