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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.
- J. B. Priestley
#Hope
#Important
#Know
#Life
#Person
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
- J. B. Priestley
#Better
#Must
#Perhaps
#Then
#Would
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
- J. B. Priestley
#Child
#Find
#Happiness
#Own
#Your
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
- J. B. Priestley
#Age
#Existence
#Greatest
#Mystery
#Our
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
- J. B. Priestley
#Children
#Fashion
#Nobody
#Rise
#School
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.
- J. B. Priestley
#Age
#Day
#Every Day
#Life
#Perfect
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
- J. B. Priestley
#Accidents
#Change
#Impossible
#Man
#Try
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
- J. B. Priestley
#Clothes
#Like
#Marriage
#Visit
#Worst
#Your
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
- J. B. Priestley
#Like
#Politicians
#Society
#War
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.
- J. B. Priestley
#Fool
#Man
#Proud
#Shyness
#Simply
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
- J. B. Priestley
#Funny
#Handsome
#She
#Woman
#Years
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.
- J. B. Priestley
#Age
#I Am
#Respect
#Young
#Youth
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
- J. B. Priestley
#Different
#Heaven
#Hell
#Same
#World
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
- J. B. Priestley
#Advice
#Be Yourself
#People
#Yourself
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
#Bed
#Fall
#Go
#Wake Up
#World
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
- J. B. Priestley
#Age
#Old
#Pay
#Youth
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.
- J. B. Priestley
#Day
#Morning
#New Day
#New
#Waiting
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
- J. B. Priestley
#Comedy
#Humor
#Say
#Smile
#Society
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
- J. B. Priestley
#Communication
#Elaborate
#Means
#More
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