"A lot of men who have accepted -……" — J. B. Priestley
"A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves."
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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were…
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In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.
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