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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, Paul Delaney (2000). “Brian Friel in Conversation”, p.227, University of Michigan Press
  • It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

    Past   Shapes   Facts  
    Brian Friel, Paul Delaney (2000). “Brian Friel in conversation”, Univ of Michigan Pr
  • To remember everything is a form of madness.

    Brian Friel, Csilla Bertha, Mária Kurdi (2006). “Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: "the Work Has Value"”, p.215, Peter Lang
  • Confusion is not an ignoble condition

    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
  • 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.

    Fun   Class   People  
    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
  • 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?

    May   Outsiders   Tribes  
    Brian Friel, Csilla Bertha, Mária Kurdi (2006). “Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry: "the Work Has Value"”, p.100, Peter Lang
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