In Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, what phrase does Jack Torrance type repeatedly?

In Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Jack Torrance repeatedly types “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

Wendy Torrance discovers that the pages of Jack’s manuscript contain the same sentence again and again, revealing that he has not been writing the novel she believed he was working on. The discovery is one of the film’s most memorable psychological-horror moments.

The phrase is an old proverb, but Kubrick’s film turns it into a visual pattern of obsessive repetition. In the English-language version, the sentence is printed in different page layouts and typewriter arrangements as Wendy examines the manuscript.

The scene is sometimes remembered simply as “Here’s Johnny,” Jack’s later line at the bathroom door. That quotation is separate: the repeated manuscript sentence exposes Jack’s breakdown, while “Here’s Johnny” accompanies his attack on the door.