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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

— John Osborne

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Also attributed to Christopher Hampton by the Sunday Times Magazine (16 October 1977)

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Number 7; said to have been an old joke in the music-halls at the time the play was written.

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George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.

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.

Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.

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