"Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive."

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Source : John Osborne (2014). “Looking Back”, p.358, Faber & Faber

John Osborne

#Alive Quotes #Humans Quotes #Human Beings Quotes

“It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.”
“Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards”
“Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.”
“The #1 key to spiritual warfare is prayer.”
“The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.”
“The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.”
“I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.”

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