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Category: John Osborne

Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.

Building, Old, Hard

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

Love, Man, Live

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

teachers, teaching

Jimmy: One day, when I’m no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about us all. It’s all here. (slapping his forehead) Written in flames a mile high. And it won’t be recollected in tranquillity either, picking daffodils with Auntie Wordsworth. It’ll be recollected in fire, and blood. My blood.

anger, blood, fire, jimmy-porter

To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.

angry-young-men, drama

That voice that cries out doesn’t have to be a weakling’s does it?

absurd-play, anger, comedy, cry, family-drama, outcry, strength, voice, weakness

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.”, October 31, 1977]

critics, humor, literary-criticism, writing

That voice that cries out doesn’t have to be a weakling’s does it?

absurd-play, anger, comedy, cry, family-drama, outcry, strength, voice, weakness

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.”, October 31, 1977]

critics, humor, literary-criticism, writing