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Mr Birling : "I speak as a
hard-headed
man of
business
"
Mr Birling : "you've a lot
to learn
yet"
Mr Birling : "
Unsinkable
, absolutely
unsinkable
"
Mr Birling : "
Community
and all that
nonsence
"
Mr Birling : "a man has to
mind his own
business and
look after
himself - and his
family too
"
Mr Birling : "i can't
accept
any
responsibility
"
Mr Birling : "as if we were all
mixed
up like
bees in a hive
- community and
all that nonsense"
Mr Birling : "you
hysterical
young
fool
"
Mr Birling : "you're the
one to blame
for this"
Mr Birling : "there'll be a public
scandal...
i was almost certain for
knighthood
"
Mr Birling : "
probably
a
socialist
or some sort of
crank
"
Mrs Birling : "girls of
that kind
"
Mrs Birling : "Sheila! Really the things
you
girls
pick up these days!"
Mrs Birling : "a lot of silly
nonsense
! ... as if a
girl
of
that
sort
would ever refuse money!"
Mrs Birling : "
Naturally
that was
one
of the
things
that
prejudiced
me against her case"
Mrs Birling : "i'm very
sorry.
But i think she has
only
herself
to
blame
"
Mrs Birling : "you know
of
course
that my
husband
was Lord Mayor"
Mrs Birling : "they're
over-tired.
In the morning, they'll be as
amused
as we are"
Sheila : [stage directions] "a
pretty
girl...
pleased
with
life
and rather
excited
"
Sheila : "is this the one
you
wanted me to have?"
Sheila : "yes, go on
mummy
"
Sheila : "but these girls aren't
cheap
labour, they're
people
"
Sheila : [stage directions] "
urgently
,
cutting
in"
Sheila : "... i went and
pushed
her further out, right into the streets, just because i was
angry
and she was
pretty
"
Sheila : "he's
giving
us the
rope
- so that we'll
hang
ourselves"
Sheila : "i'm not a
child
"
Eric : "half
shy
, half
assertive
"
Eric : "in that state when a
chap
easily
turns
"
Eric : "why
shouldn't
they try for
higher
wages"
Eric : "she was
pretty
and a
good
sport"
Eric : "
you
killed her - and the
child
her she'd have had too - your
grandchild
"
Eric : "the fact remains
i did
what
i did
"
Eric : "the girl's
dead
and
we all
helped to kill her"
Goole : [stage directions] "lighting should be
pink
and
intimate
until the inspector arrives and then it should be
brighter
and
harder
"
Goole : "we are members of
one body.
we are
responsible
for each other"
Goole : "one
Eva Smith
has gone - but there are
millions and millions and millions
of Eva Smiths and
John Smiths
"
Goole : "fire and
blood
and
anguish
"
Gerald : "A very
pretty
girl too - with
soft
brown
hair
and
big
brown
eyes...
very
pretty
"