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Reason and Progress, the old firm, is selling out! Everyone get out while the going's good. Those forgotten shares you had in the old traditions, the old beliefs are going up—up and up and up.
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The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place... People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say – or their beliefs – or sex.
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Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
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If you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint. Because you'll never make it as a human being. It's either this world or the next.
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Anyone who's never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
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I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age—unless you're an American, of course.
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Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only got ourselves.
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A real pro is a real man, all he needs is an old backcloth behind him and he can hold them on his own for half an hour. He's like the general run of people, only he's a lot more like them than they are themselves, if you understand me.
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I have only one regret remaining now in this matter of Adolf. It is simply that I was unable to look down upon her open coffin and, like that bird in the Book of Tobit, drop a good, large mess in her eye.
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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
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Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
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Inside every playwright there is a Falstaff, gathering like a boil to be lanced by his liege employers – fashion and caprice.
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What we remember is what we become. What we have forgotten is more kindly and disturbs only our dreams. We become resemblances of our past.
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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John Osborne
Born:
December 12, 1929
Died:
December 24, 1994
(aged 65)
Bio:
John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms.
Known for:
Look Back in Anger (1956)
The Entertainer (1957)
Inadmissible Evidence (1955)
A Patriot for Me (1956)
Epitaph for George Dillon (1958)
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