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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.
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