"Living in an age of advertisement, we are……" — J. B. Priestley
"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned."
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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley
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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…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like…
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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…
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a…
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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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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
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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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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign…
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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…
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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