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J. B. Priestley

British Writer

Born: Sep 13, 1894

Died: Aug 14, 1984

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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 Waiting Try Somewhere Bit Magic More Delighted Prospect New Perhaps New Day Fresh Always Been Behind Start

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

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

You Yourself People Some People Be Yourself Advice Worst Some About Give

We pay when old for the excesses of youth. J. B. Priestley

Age Youth Old Pay Excess

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

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. J. B. Priestley

Words World Circumstances Possible Proposes Announce She Done Warfare Plain Should Now Nuclear Reject Early Britain

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

Smile Comedy Humor Society Say Protecting Itself May

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. J. B. Priestley

Man Change Impossible Try Accidents Reveals Accidental Them

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. J. B. Priestley

Funny Woman Would Remain She Years Handsome Forty-Five Many

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. J. B. Priestley

You Better Must Would Would-Be Write Writer Perhaps Then

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. J. B. Priestley

You Genius Matter Challenge Face Odds Own Paper Rules Mood Write Make Go Against Icy Your Desk

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

Fashion School Sense Our Relief Rise Delight Nobody Read Thank Reporting Reports Heaven Children Realize Us

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. J. B. Priestley

Reputation Nothing Books Say Must Finds Something Rising Writes Wrong Fellow Because His Years Producing Who Novelist Keep They Say

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