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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.

— John Osborne The Entertainer (1957)

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

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

The Entertainer (1957)

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.

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