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All Quotes by author - J. B. Priestley
" Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. "
Change
Try
Man
" Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. "
Yourself
People
Advice
" 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. "
Losing
War
Virtues
" Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. "
Humor
Comedy
Society
" If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. "
Despair
Wrong
Need
" 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. "
Own
You
Genius
" 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. "
New Day
Waiting
Start
" I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. "
Two
Only
Know
" 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. "
Hope
Important
Person
" 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. "
Done
World
Words
" 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. "
Changes
Living
Perfect
" 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. "
Man
Risk
Shyness
" Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. "
Clothes
Like
Marriage
" 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. "
Yellow
Drink
Revenge
" Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. "
Opinion
Garden
Children
" She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. "
Many
Handsome
Funny
" 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? "
You
Fall
Kind
" The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. "
Been
Write
Who
" The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. "
Mystery
Age
Aware
" The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. "
More
Less
Communication
" There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. "
Clever
Enough
Too Much
" There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going. "
Now
Respect
Young
" To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. "
Different
Heaven
World
" To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. "
Find
You
Show
" We pay when old for the excesses of youth. "
Youth
Pay
Old
" 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. "
Us
Sound
Colour
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