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Cards (104)

  • Mr Birling: 'A heavy looking, rather portentous man… provincial in this speech'
  • Mr Birling: 'unsinkable, absolutely, unsinkable'
  • Mr Birling: 'community and all that nonsense … mixed up together like bees in a hive'
  • Mr Birling: 'a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his…'
  • Mrs Birling: 'girls of that class'
  • Mrs Birling: 'You have no power to make me change my mind'
  • Mrs Birling: 'I did no more than my duty'
  • Mrs Birling: 'I accept no blame for it all'
  • Sheila: 'Oh – Gerald – you've got it – is it the one you wanted me to have? … Look mummy, isn't a beauty!'
  • Sheila: 'They're not cheap labour, They're people'
  • Sheila: 'I'll never, never, do it to anybody again'
  • Sheila: 'Between us we drove that girl to commit suicide'
  • Sheila: 'It's you two who are being childish – trying not to face the facts.'
  • Eric: 'I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty'
  • Eric: 'The girl's dead and we all killed her'
  • Eric: 'Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices.'
  • Gerald: 'It may have all been nonsense.'
  • Gerald: 'She was young and pretty and warm-heated and intensely grateful'
  • Inspector: 'A chain of events'
  • Inspector: 'He creates at once an impression of massiveness solidity, and purposefulness'
  • Inspector: 'It's better to ask for the earth than take it'
  • Checking out me history: Bandage up me eye with me own history. Blind me to me own identity
  • Checking out me history: Dem tell me what dem want to tell me
  • Checking out me history: Dem tell me about Florence nightingale… but dem never tell me about mary Seacole
  • Kamikaze:Embarked at sunrise
  • Kamikaze:They treated him as though he no longer existed
  • Kamikaze:Shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun
  • Kamikaze:The dark prince, muscular, dangerous
  • The emigree: The bright, filled paperweight… it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants.
  • The emigree: I have no passport, there's no way back at all
  • The emigree: They accuse me of absence, they accuse me.
  • Tissue: Paper that lets light shine through
  • Tissue: Pages smoothed and stroked and turned
  • Tissue: The sun shines through the borderlines
  • Tissue: A structure never meant to last of paper smoothed and stroked.
  • War photographer: Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
  • War photographer: All flesh is grass
  • War photographer: He has a job to do
  • War photographer: A half-formed ghost.
  • War photographer: A hundred agonies in black and white.