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John Mortimer

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Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.


— John Mortimer


#humour #experience

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.


— John Mortimer


#clean #common #common sense #finger #law

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.


— John Mortimer


#accountants #alike #children #congress #flower

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.


— John Mortimer


#minute #per #played #revolutions #thousand

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.


— John Mortimer


#dread #fear #fearful #feel #flattered

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.


— John Mortimer


#been #exchange #fortune #freedom #freedom of speech

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.


— John Mortimer


#about #eat #extra #forgoing #geriatric

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.


— John Mortimer


#life #milk #modern #shelf #shelf life

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.


— John Mortimer


#classes #fault #going #succeed #telling

There is always time for failure.


— John Mortimer


#failure #time






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At seventeen he went up to Brasenose College Oxford where he read law though he was actually based at Christ Church because the Brasenose buildings had been requisitioned for the war effort. However Graham Lord's unofficial biography John Mortimer: The Devil's Advocate revealed in 2005 that none of Mortimer's submitted scripts had in fact been used and that the screenplay was actually written by the series producer and director. For the first and in fact the only time in my life I was thanks to Laurie Lee earning my living entirely as a writer.

Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was a British barrister dramatist screenwriter and author.

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