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John James Osborne - From the Aging category:
Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Books category:
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Confidence category:
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Critics category:
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Drunkenness category:
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Drunkenness category:
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Enthusiasm category:
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! (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Failure category:
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Humour category:
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. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Immortality category:
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. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Life category:
-Look Back in Anger...
Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Mirrors category:
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Performance category:
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Questions category:
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Recognition category:
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. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Repetition category:
They're basically gutting it out to the stone and starting over. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Sacrifice category:
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. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Shock category:
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Silence category:
I wish you'd stop yelling, I can't hear myself shout. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Taste category:
The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Time category:
They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past. (John James Osborne)
John James Osborne - From the Universe category:
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 ourselves. (John James Osborne)
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