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Look Back in Anger (1956)
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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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I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age—unless you're an American, of course.
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Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm—that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!
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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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Anyone who's never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
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It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And 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.
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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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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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There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it won't be in aid of the old-fashioned, grand design. It'll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank-you. About as pointless and inglorious as stepping in front of a bus.
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Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.
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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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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
John Osborne
Born:
December 12, 1929
Died:
December 24, 1994
(aged 65)
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