Famous quotes by John Osborne:
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs"
"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions -- it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers"
"Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success."
"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."
"They're basically gutting it out to the stone and starting over."
"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."