John Boynton Priestley citáty
John Boynton Priestley
Dátum narodenia: 13. september 1894
Dátum úmrtia: 14. august 1984
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John Boynton Priestley bol anglický prozaik, novinár a literárny kritik. Jeho tvorba sa vyznačovala vtipom a humorom, ktoré vystihli ducha vtedajšej doby.
Citáty John Boynton Priestley
„Ľudia nie sú horší než boli. Iba spravodajstvo o ich činoch je dôkladnejšie.“
Varianta: Ľudia nie sú horší, ako boli predtým. Iba spravodajstvo o ich činoch je teraz dôkladnejšie.
„We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.“
— J.B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls
Zdroj: An Inspector Calls
„I suppose -- in the last resort -- you trust life -- or you don't. Well -- I don't. There's something malicious... corrupt... cruel... at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake.“
— J.B. Priestley, I Have Been Here Before
I Have Been Here Before, Act II.
„Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.“
"A Coincidence," http://books.google.com/books?id=vmpHAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Although+we+talk+so+much+about+coincidence+we+do+not+really+believe+in+it+in+our+heart+of+hearts+we+think+better+of+the+universe+we+are+secretly+convinced+that+it+is+not+such+a+slipshod+haphazard+affair+that+everything+in+it+has+meaning%22&pg=PA215#v=onepage Going Up Stories and Sketches (1950)
„Science can function only by abstracting from the reality in which the scientist has his being. In spite of the astonishing complications it discovers, with which it dazzles and almost blinds us, science is compelled by its own terms of reference to be a drastic simplification.“
Zdroj: Man and Time (1964), Ch. 10, p. 253