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About the John Osborne
John James Osbornewas an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur, who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in post-war theatre. Born in London, he briefly worked as a journalist before starting out in theatre as a stage manager and actor. He lived in poverty for several years before his third produced play, Look Back in Angerwere also well-received, Luther winning the 1964 Tony Award for Best Play, though reception to his later plays was less favourable. During this period Osborne began writing and acting for television and appearing in films, most notably as crime boss Cyril Kinnear in Get Carter(co-written by Nigel Kneale), and Inadmissible Evidenceand Almost a Gentleman (1991), and a collection of his non-fiction writing, Damn You, England, was published in 1994. He died from complications of diabetes on 24 December of that year at the age of 65.
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It is easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
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Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.
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There’s no such thing as failure – just waiting for success.
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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
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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.
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They spend their time looking forward to the past.
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Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week’s. Different books same reviews.
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In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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Go on – but don’t think you can kill my confidence. I’ve had experts doing it for years.
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It is not true that drink changes a man’s character. It may reveal it more clearly.
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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.
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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.
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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man’s desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
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