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John Osborne [1929-1994] English

Rank: 106
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John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre.

Architecture, Failure

Quote	Tags	Rank
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.	Architecture	101
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.		102
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.		103
They spend their time looking forward to the past.		104
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.	Failure	105
It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.		106
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.		107
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.		108
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.		109
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.		110
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.		111
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.		112
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.		113
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.		114

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