Arnold Wesker quotes

“Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?”
-- Arnold Wesker

Source : "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 Wesker

Source : '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 Wesker

Source : 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 Wesker

Source : 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 Wesker

Source : 'Chips with Everything' (1962) act 1, sc. 2

#Baby Quotes #Hands Quotes #Tea Quotes

“"You two would make a cute couple," she says as she passes by with a full dough tray in her arms. I don't know why she says it. We aren't doing anything but folding boxes with the other drivers and telling dirty jokes.But we would.We would make a cute couple.”

“Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick”

“In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.”

“Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.”

“George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.”

“[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.”

“I don't look at myself as suffering.”

“What we suffer from today is an excess of education.”

“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”

“Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.”

Source : "GOP congressman: Ebola could spread across the border". www.msnbc.com. July 15, 2014.