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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

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

Tags: critics, humor, literary criticism, writing

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

John Osborne

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

Tags: teachers, teaching

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John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur. Born in London, he briefly worked as a journalist before starting out in theatre as a stage manager and actor. He lived in poverty for several years before his third produced play, Look Back in Anger (1956), brought him national fame.

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. Som...

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. Som...

Tags: god, simple, universe

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

John Osborne

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Tags: architecture, building, old, hard

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

John Osborne

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

Tags: failure

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

John Osborne

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

Tags: love, man, live