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J. B. Priestley

"The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence."

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."
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"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."
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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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"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."
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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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"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"
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