Quotes by Friel, Brian




Brian Friel (born January 9, 1929) is a playwright and director from Northern Ireland..

"It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language."

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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."

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