The Internet is like a living window into human consciousness and perhaps even to the divine… if we can attune to it… we might well contribute to a glittering awakening on a cosmic level. We can be on-line with ourselves and the world all the time.
—John Osborne
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.
—John Osborne
Topics: Laughter
Go on—but don’t think you can kill my confidence. I’ve had experts doing it for years.
—John Osborne
Topics: Confidence
What are we hoping to get out of it, what’s it all in aid of—is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?
—John Osborne
Topics: Results
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
—John Osborne
Topics: Past, The Past
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.
—John Osborne
Topics: Atheism
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