Arnold Wesker Quotes

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A journalist is somebody who possesses himself of a fantasy and lures the truth towards it.

Arnold Wesker

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

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

I was never an angry young man, none of us was. On the contrary, we were all very happy young men and women. Who would not have been happy? Discovered, applauded, paid, made internationally famous overnight? But I am an angry old man.

Arnold Wesker

The Khomeini cry for the execution of Rushdie is an infantile cry. From the beginning of time we have seen that. To murder the thinker does not murder the thought.

Arnold Wesker

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

I just have greater faith in the thought that is thought through than the trigger, which is a bit more easily pulled.

Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker

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Born: May 24, 1932

Died: April 12, 2016 (aged 83)

Bio: Sir Arnold Wesker is a British dramatist known for his contributions to world drama.

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