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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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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to…
— Maya Angelou
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Nothing is so sour that it can't be sweetened by a good attitude.
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers…
— James Joyce
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Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
— William Gilmore Simms
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the…
— Blaise Pascal
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to…
— Paul Newman
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Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move…
— Rumi
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
— William Hazlitt
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Parody is homage gone sour.
— Brendan Gill
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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
— John Milton
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
— Teresa of Avila
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