Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it’s nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as spirituality.
- Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People
- Roger Ames: Tony, you're fucking mad.
- Tony Wilson: Well, that is a point of view.
Well, this is goodbye. I mean, we obviously have nothing in common. I’m a genius, you’re all fucking wankers. You’ll never see me again. You don’t deserve to see me again.
- Martin Hannett, 24 Hour Party People
# I have protected myself from ever having to sell out by having nothing to sell out.
- Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People
I don’t want to say too much, don’t want to spoil it. I’ll just say one word: ‘Icarus’. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.
- Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People
An Education
- Jenny: This is where you're supposed to say, "But what about Oxford?"
- Jack: Well. Look at it another way, you wouldn't really need to go now, would you?
- Jenny: I wouldn't need to go. Would you like to expand on that?
- Jack: You'd be looked after.
- Jenny: All that Latin! All those essays! What was the point? Why didn't you just send me prowling round nightclubs? It would have been less trouble. And I might have had more fun!
You should keep that dress if you want it. I can only wear so many in one day.
- Marjorie, An Education
You have no idea how boring everything was before I met you. “Action is character”, our English teacher says. I think it means that if we never did anything, we wouldn’t be anybody. And I never did anything before I met you. And sometimes I think no one’s ever done anything in this whole stupid country, apart from you.
- Jenny, An Education
So what you’re telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again, but this time for the rest of my life. This whole stupid country is bored. There’s no life in it, or colour, or fun. So my choice is to do something hard and boring, or to marry my Jew, and go to Paris and Rome and listen to jazz and read and eat good food in nice restaurants and have fun. It’s not enough to educate us any more, Mrs Walters. You’ve got to tell us why you’re doing it.
- Jenny, An Education
Well, after I’ve been to university, I’m going to be French, and I’m going to Paris, and I’m going to smoke and wear black, and listen to Jacques Brel, and I won’t speak. Ever. C’est plus chic comme ça.
- Jenny, An Education
