Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Brian Friel
Age: 86 †
Born: 1929
Born: January 9
Died: 2015
Died: October 2
Author
Dramatist
Playwright
Politician
Theatrical Director
Translator
Writer
Bernard Patrick Friel
Brian Patrick Friel
Lives
Else
Pigmentation
Wells
Detracts
Well
Irritation
Real
Troubles
Something
Permanent
Things
Constant
Life
Trouble
More quotes by Brian Friel
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Brian Friel
Confusion is not an ignoble condition
Brian Friel
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
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