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John Osborne
English
Playwright
About the author
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Character
#May
#Man
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 Osborne,
English
Playwright
#God
#Universe
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 Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Books
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Time
#Past
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Success
#Failure
#Waiting
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.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Time
#People
#Sacrifice
#First
#Beliefs
#Sex
#Careers
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Will
#Man
#Desire
#Wine
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Love
#London
#Tea
#Scandal
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Building
#Old
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 Osborne,
English
Playwright
#God
#May
#Ideas
#Heroes
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#People
#Wrong
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Love
#Man
#Age
#Heaven
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Years
#Confidence
#Experts
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
John Osborne,
English
Playwright
#Questions