John Mortimer
John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1923
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The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere
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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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The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.
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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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The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.
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People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.
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Attack the medical evidence. Remember the jury's full of rheumatism and arthritis and shocking gastric troubles. They love to see a medical man put through it.
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I think it will bring together a few facets of the running community that weren't linked, ... Starting off with the mile and going up to the long distances, it could potentially link both ends of the spectrum.
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No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
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She's certainly not a flash in the pan. She was highly recruited out of high school and went on to have a fantastic career at Kansas State, where she was a 12-time All-American.
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should recognize the true importance of a single moment in time, the instant when you are fully and completely alive.
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There are a lot of sacrifices involved in running and it can certainly be difficult at times,
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Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life.
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.