| 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. |
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- J.B. Priestley |
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| What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? |
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- J.B. Priestley |
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| We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. |
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- J.B. Priestley |
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| California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. |
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- J.B. Priestley |
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| To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. |
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- J.B. Priestley |
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| Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. |
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- J.B. Priestley |
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