"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."
-J. B. Priestley
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"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.“
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"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."
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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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"Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy."
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"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."
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"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
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"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."
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"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
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