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Marriage is rather a silly habit.
John Osborne / Playwright
Marriage
Habit
Silly
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A refined sort of butcher, a woman is.
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Butchers
Refined
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Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
John Osborne / Playwright
Architecture
Building
Hard
Old Buildings
Very
Clap
Too
Old
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They spend their time looking forward to the past.
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Looking Forward
Past
Looking
Time Looking Forward Looking
Forward
Spend
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Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay
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Decay
Filling In
Gold
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Writers don't need love; all they require is money.
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Need Love
Needs
Writing
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Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.
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Atheism
Emotional
Positive Atheism
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There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
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Failure
Waiting
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That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?
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Cry
Doe
Voice
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Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.
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Alive
Human Beings
Humans
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In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
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London
Scandal
Tea
Considered
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The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.
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British
Taste
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I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.
John Osborne / Playwright
Men
Bisexual
World
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It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
John Osborne / Playwright
Men
Character
May
Character Man May
Clearly
Reveal
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Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
John Osborne / Playwright
Confidence
Smile
Experts
Thinking
Years
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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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Heaven
Stage
Except
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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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Dull
Wine
Held
Indeed
Widely
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It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
John Osborne / Playwright
Answers
Easy
Ultimate
Ultimate Questions
Questions
Bothering
Immediate
Saves
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Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
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Dog
Thinking
Writing
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The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
John Osborne / Playwright
Educator
Underpaid
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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.
John Osborne / Playwright
People
Play
Shock
Thinking
Walk People Never
Deliberately
Plays
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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.
John Osborne / Playwright
Book
Different
Reviews
Sunday
Week
Why
Same
Every Sunday
Last
Seem
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Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
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Grace
Laughter
Sainthood
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There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.
John Osborne / Playwright
British
Filth
Serious
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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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Demise
Divine
Hero
Ideas
Heroes
Mortal
Worse
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George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.
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Order
Writing
Years
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Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
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Fear
Censorship
Self
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I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.
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Age
Children
Courses
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And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.
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Hatred
Majority
Triumph
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We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.
John Osborne / Playwright
Death
Dying
Too Much
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Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!
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Heaven
Long
Voice
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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.
John Osborne / Playwright
Careers
Sacrifice
Sex
Beliefs
First Place
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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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Giving Up
Sacrifice
Sex
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You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.
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Love
Betrayal
Years
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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.
John Osborne / Playwright
Alone
Atheism
Rocks
Seems
Simple
Sunlight
Universe
Began
Rock
Piece
Somehow
Striking
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