John James Osborne foi um dramaturgo, ator e roteirista britânico.
Foi vencedor do Oscar e do BAFTA em 1964, na categoria de melhor roteiro adaptado, pelo filme Tom Jones .
Wikipedia
“Até o pior dos livros tem uma página boa. A última.”
em "Ruda" - página 61 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=C15qPYxP_jMC&pg=PA61, Por Jaimendonsa, Publicado por Jaime de Araújo Mendonça, 2007, ISBN 8560864016, 9788560864010 tem um expressão semelhante: "Até o pior dos livros de auto-ajuda tem uma página boa. A última"
Atribuídas
“Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.”
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.”
Number 7; said to have been an old joke in the music-halls at the time the play was written.
The Entertainer (1957)
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.”
Look Back in Anger, Act II, sc. I (1956)
Kenneth Tynan, Tynan Right and Left (1967) p. 13
Criticism
Epitaph for George Dillon, Act II (1957)
Co-written with Anthony Creighton.
"A Letter To My Fellow Countrymen", Tribune (18 August 1961)