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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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J. B. Priestley
Born:
September 13, 1894
Died:
August 14, 1984
(aged 89)
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John Boynton Priestley was an English author, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, social commentator, man of letters and broadcaster, whose career straddled the 20th century.
Known for:
An Inspector Calls (1945)
Dangerous Corner (1932)
When We Are Married (1938)
Time and the Conways (1937)
The Linden Tree (1947)
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