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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ‧ 1967
A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker challenges the assumption that talking to oneself is inherently irrational. Sensible private speech is compared with nonsense spoken to others, reversing the usual suspicion of self-talk. The joke suggests that having an audience tells us little about whether the words themselves make sense.
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