Living in an 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
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More quotes by J. B. Priestley
- We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
- There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
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- The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
- The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.