John Osborne (1929 – 1994)
British playwright, producer and actor.
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Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.
George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
Archie Rice: I'm dead behind these eyes. I'm dead, just like the whole inert, shoddy lot out there. It doesn't matter because I don't feel a thing, and neither do they.
Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.
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