J. B. Priestley Quotes - Page 3

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• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

  J. B. Priestley

  Fire, Order, Sound

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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 research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.

  J. B. Priestley

  Real, Cutting, Hair

  J.B. Priestley (1967). “It's an Old Country”

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• There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

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  Clever, Genius, Too Much

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• Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

  J. B. Priestley

  Revenge, Rivers, Yellow

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• Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

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  Letting Go, Children, Imagination

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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 be a tremendous event.

  J. B. Priestley

  Death, Prayer, People

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• The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

  J. B. Priestley

  Men, Differences, Together

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• She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

  J. B. Priestley

  Beauty, Years, 50th Birthday

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• One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

  J. B. Priestley

  Age, Delight, Youth

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• Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.

  J. B. Priestley

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

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  Inspirational, Men, Risk

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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 interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

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  Intelligent, Men, People

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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 their differences.

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  Differences, World, Politics

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• Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

  J. B. Priestley

  Fashion, Bullying, Prayer

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• Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

  J. B. Priestley

  Change, Equality, Men

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• I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

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  Play, People, Done

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• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

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  Reading, Important, Half

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• No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation
  creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner
  world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

  J. B. Priestley

  Faith, Light, Shadow

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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 in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

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  Lonely, Science, Typewriters

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• We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

  J. B. Priestley

  Revenge, Animal, Prison

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

  J. B. Priestley

  Understanding, One Day, Demand

  "The English". Book by J. B. Priestley, 1973.

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• It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

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  Church, England, Ends

  1962 In the New Statesman, 20 Jul.

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• A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

  J. B. Priestley

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

  J. B. Priestley

  Ideas, Two, Mind

  "International Herald Tribune", January 3, 1978.

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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 cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

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  Philosophy, Character, Civilization

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