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

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

Look Back in Anger

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

Look Back in Anger

Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about ...

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Look Back in Anger

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by somethi...

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

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

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about ...

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John Osborne

Playwright

Born: 1929-12-12

Died: 1994-12-24

John Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was a British playwright, producer and actor. The first production of his play Look Back in Anger in 1956 revived British theatre and gave him prominence as one of the era's Angry Young Men.More