The Entertainer

Text of the day: “And do you know why? Do you know why? Because we’re dead beat and down and outs. We’re drunks, maniacs, we’re crazy, we’re bonkers, the whole flaming bunch of us. Why, we have problems that nobody’s ever heard of, we’re characters out of something that nobody beliueves in. We’re something that people make jokes about, because we’re so remote from the rest of ordinary everday, human experience. But we’re not really funny. We’re too boring.” (Archie in John Osborne’s The Entertainer)

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