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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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It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
— Arthur Baer
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
— Henry Adams
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The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
— Tom Hanks
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You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin
— Laura Dern
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I've been asked if I ever get the DTs. I don't know. It's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs…
— W.C. Fields
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History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that
— Rick Yune
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The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when…
— Jean-Luc Godard
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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
— Chuck Jones
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I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We…
— Luis Tiant
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Sometimes when you are standing still and it’s snowing, you think that you hear music. You can’t tell where it’s coming from…
— Heather O'Neill
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair?…
— Plutarch
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I…
— Alexander Pope
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