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This is the age, among things, of chocolate.
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Men are much better than their ordinary life allows them to be.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself—with a smile.
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Here was a society dominated entirely by the masculine principle.
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn't exist.
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We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
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It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
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Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
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Anyone who is under the impression that the world is becoming too crowded should move to Nevada.
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Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
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As we read the school reports on our children we realize a sense of relief that…nobody is reporting in this fashion on us!
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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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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
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Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
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Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.
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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.
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Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.
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Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
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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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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.
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In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
J. B. Priestley
Born:
September 13, 1894
Died:
August 14, 1984
(aged 89)
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