John Mortimer Quotes

1923-, British Barrister, Novelist
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“Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.”
Theater
“The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.”
Writers and Writing
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
Age and Aging
“The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.”
Stock Market
“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.''”
Working Class