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J. B. Priestley
September 13, 1894 - August 14, 1984
Nationality: British
Category: Writer
Subcategory: British Writer

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.

   

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

   

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

   

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

   

Western man is schizophrenic.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

   

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

   

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