Osborne/people

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“I never thought as it was any harm to say a young man was handsome. But I shall never think of him any more now. For handsome is as handsome does.”
—John Osborne (1929–1994)

“What lies behind facts like these: that so recently one could not have said Scott was not perfect without earning at least sorrowful disapproval; that a year after the Gang of Four were perfect, they were villains; that in the fifties in the United States a nothing-man called McCarthy was able to intimidate and terrorise sane and sensible people, but that in the sixties young people summoned before similar committees simply laughed.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)