"The only rule I have found to have……" — John Mortimer
"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."
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45 Quotes by John Mortimer
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life,…
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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and…
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What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
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Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
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I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the…
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Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
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We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.
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The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely…
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To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
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I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the…
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