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.

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• John Mortimer:

  There is always time for failure.

• John Mortimer:

  To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

• John Mortimer:

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

• John Mortimer:

  Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

• John Mortimer:

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

• John Mortimer:

  The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

• John Mortimer:

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

• John Mortimer:

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

• John Mortimer:

  Life as a barrister never was terribly real to me, and courtrooms were always a place of fantasy to

• John Mortimer:

  One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers,