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