John Boynton Priestley citáty
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John Boynton Priestley
Datum narození: 13. září 1894
Datum úmrtí: 14. srpen 1984
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John Boynton Priestley byl anglický spisovatel.
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„Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.“
— J.B. Priestley
International Herald Tribune, January 3, 1978.
„Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine about them.“
— J.B. Priestley
"The Dark Hours", in Too Many People, and Other Reflections http://books.google.com/books?id=WXRMy9eD_GkC&q="Those+no+sooner+have+I+touched+the+pillow+people+are+past+my+comprehension+There+is+something+suspiciously+bovine+about+them"&pg=PA80#v=onepage (1928).
„I wished I had been born early enough to have been called a Little Englander. It was a term of sneering abuse, but I should be delighted to accept it as a description of myself. That little sounds the right note of affection. It is little England I love.“
— J.B. Priestley
English Journey, 1934. Reprinted in Judy Giles and Tim Middleton Writing Englishness: An Introductory Sourcebook,Routledge, 2003 (p. 26).
„Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.“
— J.B. Priestley
"The Disillusioned", in The Balconinny, and Other Essays ([1929] 1969) p. 30.
