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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusione

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. – J.B. Priestley

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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley

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Places
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. – J.B. Priestley

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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. – William Bernbach

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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. – Stephen Butler Leacock, quoted in Michael Jackman, Crown’s Book of Politic

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Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. – Edgar A. Shoaff

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When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select “The Age of Advertising” for the purpose. – Printers’ Ink, 27 May 1915

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