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
Topics: Growth, Courage, Prejudice
It is not the literal past, the “facts” of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
—Brian Friel
Topics: Past, The Past
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