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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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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless…
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
— George Washington
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True…
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True…
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You don't know me baby but I know you so well, Tried to make a fool of me, tried to ring my…
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. --George…
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