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Arnold Wesker Quotes

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

Arnold Wesker
Dirty, Suffering, Tuberculosis
"Commercial productions sweep up at theatre awards" by Mark Honigsbaum, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2005.

Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.

Arnold Wesker
Country, Book, Asking Questions
Arnold Wesker (2013). “Roots”, p.78, A&C Black

Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

Arnold Wesker
Baby, Chips, Damn
'Chips with Everything' (1962) act 1, sc. 2

If the electrician who comes to mend my fuse blows it instead, so I should stop having electricity? I should cut off my light? Socialism is my light, can you understand that?

Arnold Wesker
Cutting, Blow, Light
Arnold Wesker, Reade W. Dornan (1998). “Arnold Wesker: A Casebook”, p.140, Taylor & Francis

And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said..."Chips with everything". Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

Arnold Wesker
Baby, Food, Hands
'Chips with Everything' (1962) act 1, sc. 2

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