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Schriftsteller, "Engelgasse", "Ein Inspektor kommt" (England, 1894 - 1984).

John Boynton Priestley · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

John Boynton Priestley wäre heute 130 Jahre, 4 Monate, 20 Tage oder 47.624 Tage alt.

Geboren am 13.09.1894 in Bradford (York)
Gestorben am 14.08.1984 in Stratford-upon-Avon
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau

• Verbotenes bekämpft man am besten, indem man es erlaubt.

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• Wenn ich die Politik betrachte, kommt mir das oft vor, als ob eine Gruppe eifriger Zwerge versuchte, einen Wal zu grillen.
  • Politik(er)

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• God can stand being told by Professor Ayer and Marghanita Laski that He doesn't exist.

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• I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

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• In such a season, golden, spacious, out already whispering of the end, there will often come to a man a certain solemn mood, a vein of not unpleasing melancholy, and for a little while he will see all life moving to a grave measure, an adagio for strings.

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• Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

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• Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

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• The more hollow a slogan, the more noise one can generate with it.

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

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• This little steamer, like all her brave and battered sisters, is immortal. She'll go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

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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. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.

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• Wife: One who will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing and trying to improve him.

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• Entre minuit et l'aube, quand le sommeil se refuse à venir et que la douleur de toutes les vieilles blessures se réveille, j'ai souvent une vision de cauchemar, celle d'un monde futur peuplé de milliards d'individus, chacun d'eux numéroté et répertorié, un monde surpeuplé sans une lueur de génie, sans un esprit original, sans une riche personnalité. Les idéaux jumelés de notre époque, organisation et quantité, auront à jamais triomphé.

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• Je ne peux m'empêcher d'être inquiet quand j'entends parler des masses. D'abord on leur ôte tout visage, en les appelant les masses, puis on les accuse de ne pas en avoir.

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• La comédie, si l'on veut, c'est la société qui se protège - d'un sourire.

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• Plus un slogan est creux, plus on peut produire du bruit avec lui.

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