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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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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?
J. B. Priestley
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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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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
J. B. Priestley
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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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.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
J. B. Priestley
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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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.
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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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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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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
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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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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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley