Quotes by John Mortimer

John Mortimer

English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author

Lived from: 1923 - 2009

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 21 april 1923 Died: 16 january 2009

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  • The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
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  • Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
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  • The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
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  • The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
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  • When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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