"To show a child what once delighted you,……" — J. B. Priestley
"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."
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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley
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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…
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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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