Working Writer Quotes by John Osborne

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John Osborne has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are…
• They spend their time looking forward to the past.
• It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
• In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
• Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
• Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and…
• Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
• There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
• Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs
• Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
• Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple…
• I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

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