"Confusion is not an ignoble condition"

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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

Brian Friel

#Confusion Quotes #Ignoble Quotes

“Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.”
“Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.”
“When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes.”
“Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.”
“Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.”
“I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.”
“People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.”
“All the women in my family were superb cooks.”

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