Brian Friel quotes

“Confusion is not an ignoble condition”
-- Brian Friel

Source : 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 Friel

Source : 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 Friel

Source : 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 Friel

Source : 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?”
-- Brian Friel

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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 Friel

Source : 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

#May Quotes #Outsiders Quotes #Tribes Quotes

“I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.”

“It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.”

“At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.”

“The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.”

“Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion.”

“When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.”

“The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.”

“It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.”

“We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.”

“In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.”