30 Quotes by Joe Orton




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    I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

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    Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision. I had to make my own way.

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    With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

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    You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

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    FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

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