J. B. Priestley Quotes

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J. B. Priestley

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 13, 1894

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

J. B. Priestley

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.

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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

J. B. Priestley

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

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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

J. B. Priestley

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.

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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

J. B. Priestley

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

J. B. Priestley

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

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