J. B. Priestley Quotes

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• We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

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  Good Night, Men, Fire

  J. B. Priestley (1992). “An Inspector Calls”, p.56, Heinemann

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• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

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  Life, Motivational, Good Morning

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  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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  Happiness, Children, Delight

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• The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

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  Communication, Mean, Talking

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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 the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

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  Science, Civilization, Skills

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• A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

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  Time, Travel, Holiday

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• We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

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  Body, Responsible, Members

  J. B. Priestley (1992). “An Inspector Calls”, p.56, Heinemann

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• If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

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  Despair, Degrees, Needs

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• To multiply your joy, count your blessings.

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  Blessing, Joy, Count Your Blessings

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• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

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  Birthday, Perfect, Age

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• To put failure behind you, face up to it.

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  Faces, Behind You, Behinds

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• We cannot get grace from gadgets.

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  Grace, Gadgets

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• One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.

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  Party, Years, Missing

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• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

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  War, Years, Hymns

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• To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

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  Forgive And Forget, Forgiving, Remember

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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 City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

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  Coffee, Food, Eye

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• Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

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  Men, Energy, Fool

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• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

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  Fall, Snow, Childhood

  "Garden Witchery : Magick from the Ground Up". Book by by Ellen Dugan, p. 206, 2003.

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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 instrument.

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  Writing, Ideas, Instruments

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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 is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

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  Soccer, Men, Two

  Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.

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  Dream, Real, Self

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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 on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

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  Dream, Destiny, Men

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• We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

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  Heart, Men, House

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• Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

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  War, Teenager, Politician

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• It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.

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  Real, Fiction, Facts

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