We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
¶ (Attributed)
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J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) English author, dramatist [John Boyne Priestley]
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
¶ (Attributed)
Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness – when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven’t had time to know how much better it ought to be.
¶ International Herald Tribune (3 Jan 1978)
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.
¶ Saturn over the Water, ch. 2 (1961)
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