Arnold Wesker quotes
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“Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?”
-- Arnold WeskerSource : "Commercial productions sweep up at theatre awards" by Mark Honigsbaum, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2005.
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“Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.”
-- Arnold WeskerSource : 'Chips with Everything' (1962) act 1, sc. 2
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“If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that?”
-- Arnold WeskerSource : Arnold Wesker, Reade W. Dornan (1998). “Arnold Wesker: A Casebook”, p.140, Taylor & Francis
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“Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.”
-- Arnold WeskerSource : Arnold Wesker (2013). “Roots”, p.78, A&C Black
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“And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said..."Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.”
-- Arnold WeskerSource : 'Chips with Everything' (1962) act 1, sc. 2
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“[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.”
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“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”
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Source : "GOP congressman: Ebola could spread across the border". www.msnbc.com. July 15, 2014.
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