John Boynton Priestley citations

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“Cathedral cities, market towns, ports forgotten by the sea, spas long out of fashion, all these can decay beautifully, and often their charm increases as the life ebbs out of them. Industrial towns, like steam-engines, are only even tolerable if they are in working order and puffing away.”

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Bk 2, Ch. 6. ii
The Good Companions (1929)

“A man can afford to let himself go in a hen-house.”

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Bk 1, Ch. 1. iii
The Good Companions (1929)

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

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Thoughts in the Wilderness (London: William Heinemann, 1957), p. 201.

“We know only too well that there are times when everything goes wrong, but, in our haste to make the worst of life, we are apt to forget that there are also times when everything goes right.”

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Source: Faraway (1932), Ch. 5. 5

“[Y]ou've got to put up a show of being tough nowadays, especially if you're a girl, or else they'd all be walking over you with nailed boots. They do that anyhow, in the long run, if you're a woman.”

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Faraway (1932)
Source: Terry (Patricia Teresa) Riley in Ch. 5. 3