J B Priestley

J B Priestley: Our great-grandchildren, when...

J B Priestley: Our great-grandchildren, when...

Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn...

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J B Priestley: No matter how...

J B Priestley: No matter how...

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and...

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J B Priestley: Most writers enjoy...

J B Priestley: Most writers enjoy...

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has...

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J B Priestley: In a matriarchy...

J B Priestley: In a matriarchy...

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and...

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J B Priestley: The greater part...

J B Priestley: The greater part...

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to...

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J B Priestley: Public opinion polls...

J B Priestley: Public opinion polls...

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're...

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J B Priestley: The more we...

J B Priestley: The more we...

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

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J B Priestley: Our dourest parsons,...

J B Priestley: Our dourest parsons,...

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be...

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J B Priestley: Our trouble is...

J B Priestley: Our trouble is...

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

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J B Priestley: They will review...

J B Priestley: They will review...

They will review a book by a writer much older than themselves as if it were an over-ambitious essay by a second-year...

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J B Priestley: There are plenty...

J B Priestley: There are plenty...

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

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J B Priestley: Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people...

J B Priestley: Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people...

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about...

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J B Priestley: The first fall...

J B Priestley: The first fall...

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in...

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J B Priestley: We plan, we...

J B Priestley: We plan, we...

We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The...

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J B Priestley: When I was...

J B Priestley: When I was...

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed...

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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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