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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 world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
— J. B. Priestley
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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at…
— Wallace Stegner
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To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed…
— Sterling Hayden
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Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
— Michel Serres
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I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that…
— Unknown Author
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The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to…
— Steven Callahan
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For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars -…
— Henry Beston
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Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange…
— William Wordsworth
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Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.
— Euripides
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I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China…
— George R. R. Martin
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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
— William Wordsworth
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