There's more of yourself in a ...

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.
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 John Mortimer

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No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.
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 John Mortimer
Rumpole, you must move with the times." "If I don't like the way the times are moving, I shall refuse to accompany them.
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Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.
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All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
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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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 John Mortimer