Top 25 Caryl Churchill Quotes
#1. Twigs and beetles and dead body. Water and blood. You'll never get back.
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#2. Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of view.
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#4. Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?
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#5. There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges.
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#6. Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
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#7. You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
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#8. Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.
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#10. I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.
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#11. How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?
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#12. Maud: Young women are never happy.
Betty: Mother, what a thing to say.
Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.
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#14. England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
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#15. NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.
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#16. We've got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We've got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We've got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.
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#17. I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.
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#18. People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
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#19. What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.
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#20. I'll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no.
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#22. What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
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#24. [Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.
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#25. Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the space and the detail of her work with the actors, and I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with Light Shining.
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