If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Quote by J B Priestley

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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and...

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and...

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then...

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then...

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour...

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour...

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep...

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep...

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to...

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to...

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try,...

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try,...

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply...

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply...

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the...

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the...

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough...

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough...

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more...

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more...

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow...

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow...

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

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

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues...

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues...

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is...

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is...