J B Priestley

J B Priestley: As we read...

J B Priestley: As we read...

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven...

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J B Priestley: To show a...

J B Priestley: To show a...

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is...

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J B Priestley: If there is...

J B Priestley: If there is...

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you...

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J B Priestley: Much of writing...

J B Priestley: Much of writing...

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult...

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J B Priestley: A novelist who...

J B Priestley: A novelist who...

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say...

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J B Priestley: A lot of...

J B Priestley: A lot of...

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful...

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J B Priestley: A synopsis is...

J B Priestley: A synopsis is...

A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get...

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J B Priestley: Depending upon shock...

J B Priestley: Depending upon shock...

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for...

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J B Priestley: A loving wife...

J B Priestley: A loving wife...

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticising and trying to improve...

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J B Priestley: Comedy, we may...

J B Priestley: Comedy, we may...

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

Source: George...

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J B Priestley: I remember coming...

J B Priestley: I remember coming...

I remember coming across him at the Grand Canyon and finding him peevish, refusing to admire it or even look at it...

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J B Priestley: Already we Viewers,...

J B Priestley: Already we Viewers,...

Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of...

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J B Priestley: I have always...

J B Priestley: I have always...

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

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J B Priestley: I have always...

J B Priestley: I have always...

I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice....

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J B Priestley: I'm in the...

J B Priestley: I'm in the...

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had...

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J B Priestley: If there was...

J B Priestley: If there was...

If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good...

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J B Priestley: God can stand...

J B Priestley: God can stand...

God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn't exist.

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J B Priestley: Many a man...

J B Priestley: Many a man...

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

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J B Priestley: I know only...

J B Priestley: I know only...

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is...

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J B Priestley: One of the...

J B Priestley: One of the...

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

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