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John Osborne
1929 – 1994 • English • Playwright
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Showing 14 quotesIt is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.— John Osborne
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
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
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
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.— John Osborne
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.— John Osborne
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
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.— John Osborne