“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.”
“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.”
John Osborne
“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“Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.”
John Osborne“Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.”
John Osborne“The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.”
John Osborne“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]”
John Osborne“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.”
John Osborne, Look Back in Anger“That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?”
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