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Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine about them.

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The Theatre is no place to think in. You can think much better quietly at home. An intelligent book will make more people think than the most exquisite production of the finest play. But what the dramatist can do... is to make his audience feel.

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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley

Born: September 13, 1894
Died: August 14, 1984 (aged 89)
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