Dingo the Dissident

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Tuesday, 2 August 2022

"It's surprising how cheerful one can be

when one gives up hope."

Terence Rattigan, Separate Tables, part II.


2 comments:

Wofl said...

Sir Terence, however, did not give up hope, despite the arrival of butch playwrights such as John Osborne in the 1950s.

The hopeful are endlessly destructive. It requires a great deal of courage – or misery – to abandon hope entirely.

Alma Kaselis said...

Hope is opium for the public.