Brian Friel quotes
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“Confusion is not an ignoble condition”
-- Brian FrielSource : Brian Friel (2013). “Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations”, p.393, Faber & Faber
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“The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.”
-- Brian FrielSource : Brian Friel, Paul Delaney (2000). “Brian Friel in Conversation”, p.227, University of Michigan Press
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“It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”
-- Brian FrielSource : Brian Friel, Paul Delaney (2000). “Brian Friel in conversation”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“To remember everything is a form of madness.”
-- Brian FrielSource : Brian Friel, Csilla Bertha, Mária Kurdi (2006). “Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: "the Work Has Value"”, p.215, Peter Lang
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“Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?”
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“People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.”
-- Brian FrielSource : Brian Friel (2016). “Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 2: The Freedom of the City; Volunteers; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations”, p.41, Faber & Faber
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“Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?”
-- Brian Friel
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