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Since I gave up hope, I feel so much better.
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Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
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That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?
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Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.
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In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
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Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.
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It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
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Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.
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Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
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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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The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
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George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
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I don't think one 'comes down' from Jimmy's university. According to him, it's not even red brick, but white tile.
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Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books – same reviews.
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Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
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Homophobia may be offensive but the other side of the coin is just as noisome, whatever they may tell you in Euroboy or Zipper.
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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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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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George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.
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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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And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.
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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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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of – is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
John Lyly
John Osborne
Born:
December 12, 1929
Died:
December 24, 1994
(aged 65)
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