Arnold Wesker citations

“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.”

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Arnold Wesker

Roots, Act 3 (1959)

“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.”

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Arnold Wesker Chips with Everything

Chips with Everything, Act 1 (1962)

“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?”

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Arnold Wesker

Chicken Soup with Barley, Act 3 (1958)
Reacting to the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.