"Translations" Quotes
"Translations" by Brian Friel is a play that explores language, identity, and cultural imperialism in 19th century Ireland.
plays | 91 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The only way to cope with the past is to keep on rewriting it.
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
We must learn to accommodate one another's peculiarities and allow them to remain as they are.
Translating man to man is the way we play it.
So much is said in silence.
What we are here for is to protect the language.
We must proceed very carefully. We must not take anything for granted.
It is a very lonely thing to be a pioneer.
We are the last witnesses of a culture.
We are not talking about stones. We are talking about the fabric of the earth.
