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John Osborne è stato un drammaturgo britannico.

✵ 12. Dicembre 1929 – 24. Dicembre 1994   •   Altri nomi John James Osborne
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“Eccoci qua. Non abbiamo più che noi stessi. E in qualche modo bisogna uscirne. Non abbiamo più che noi stessi…”

John Osborne

da The Entertainer

“Io credo che uomini della nostra generazione non siano più capaci di morire per una buona causa… Non c'è più alcuna buona e nobile causa che valga la pena…”

John Osborne

da Ricorda con rabbia

“Chiedere ad uno scrittore cosa pensa dei critici, è come chiedere ad un lampione cosa pensa dei cani.”

John Osborne

citato su Time, 31 ottobre 1977

“Come una volta noi creammo dal pane il corpo di Gesù, così tu hai creato il corpo dell'Europa […] Tu hai sottratto Cristo ai biascicamenti e alle voci melliflue, ai paramenti ingioiellati e alle tiare, e lo hai rimesso nel posto cui appartiene, nel cuore di ogni uomo.”

John Osborne

da Lutero

“Rivoluzioni ordinate non esistono, e poi, i cristiani sono nati per soffrire, e non per combattere.”

John Osborne

da Lutero

John Osborne: Frasi in inglese

“Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.”

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John Osborne Look Back in Anger

Origine: Look Back in Anger

“You're hurt because everything is changed. Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same. And neither of you can face it. Something's gone wrong somewhere, hasn't it?”

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John Osborne Look Back in Anger

Origine: Look Back in Anger

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

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John Osborne The Entertainer

Number 13; this, the music-hall entertainer Archie Rice's acid farewell to his audience, also appears on Osborne's gravestone https://web.archive.org/web/20071020084223/http://www.shropshiregallery.co.uk/towns/clun/IMG_0277.html.
The Entertainer (1957)

“Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.”

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John Osborne The Entertainer

Number 7; said to have been an old joke in the music-halls at the time the play was written.
The Entertainer (1957)

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

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John Osborne

Quoted in Time magazine, October 31, 1977. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,945814,00.html
Also attributed to Christopher Hampton by the Sunday Times Magazine (16 October 1977)

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

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John Osborne Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger, Act II, sc. I (1956)

“John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre – a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.”

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John Osborne

Kenneth Tynan, Tynan Right and Left (1967) p. 13
Criticism

“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.”

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John Osborne The Entertainer

Number 8
The Entertainer (1957)

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

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John Osborne

Epitaph for George Dillon, Act II (1957)
Co-written with Anthony Creighton.

“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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John Osborne

"A Letter To My Fellow Countrymen", Tribune (18 August 1961)

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