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There are 65 quotes for the author J. B. Priestley

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Property is the old-fashioned way of thinking of a country as a thing, and a collection of things in that thing, all owned by certain people and constituting property; instead of thinking of a country as the home of a living society with the community itself as the first test.

The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.

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.

It so happens that this war, whether those at present in authority like it or not, has to be fought as a citizen's war.

In the last four days in the trenches I don't think I'd eight hours sleep altogether.

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.

I wonder how many of you feel as I do about this great Battle and evacuation of Dunkirk. The news of it came as a series of surprises and shocks, followed by equally astonishing new waves of hope.

The catastrophic outer world of our age (the 20th century) is the confused and angry inner world of the nineteenth century dramatised on the largest scale.

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

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

Western man is schizophrenic.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

And it is doubtful if our society can last much longer without religion, for either it will destroy itself by some final idiot war, or, at peace but hurrying in the wrong direction, it will soon largely cease to be composed of persons.

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.

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 know. I could still do it.

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.

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.

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

Since the second war... we are sure of nothing but sex... We are now piling on to sex the whole load of our increasing dissatisfactions, our despair, a burden far greater than it can safely take.

The communication trenches are simply canals, up to the waist in some parts, the rest up to the knees. There are only a few dug-outs and those are full of water or falling in.

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