Joe Orton
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"John Kingsley" ""Joe"" "Orton" was an English playwright and author. His public career was short but prolific, lasting from 1964 until his death three years later. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedy/black comedies. The adjective Ortonesque is sometimes used to refer to work characterised by a similarly dark yet farcical cynicism.

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It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits.

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

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

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