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Birling : ‘It’s one of the happiest …’ (act 1)

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Birling : ‘It’s one of the happiest nights of my life’

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Gerald : ‘[laughs] you seem to be a …’ (act 1)

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Gerald : ‘[laughs] you seem to be a nice well-behaved family-‘.

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Inspector : ‘I’d like some information, if …’ (act 1)

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Inspector : ‘I’d like some information, if you don’t mind, Mr Birling.’

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Sheila : ‘What do you mean by saying that ? You …’ (act 1)

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Sheila : ‘What do you mean by saying that ? You talk as if we were responsible - ‘ (act 2)

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Sheila : ‘ [miserably] So I’m …’ (act 1)

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Sheila : ‘ [miserably] So I’m really responsible ?’

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Gerald : ‘So - for God’s sake - don’t say …’ (act 1)

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Gerald : ‘So - for God’s sake - don’t say anything to the Inspector. ‘ (act 2)

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Inspector : ‘… we’ll have to …’ (act 2)

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Inspector : ‘… we’ll have to share our guilt. ‘

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Mrs Birling : ‘Girls of …’ (act 2)

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MrsBirling : ‘Girls of that class -‘

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Gerald : ‘All she wanted was to talk - … ‘ (act 2)

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Gerald : ‘All she wanted was to talk - a little friendliness … ‘

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Mrs Birling : ‘I’m very sorry. But i think she …’ (act 2)

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Mrs Birling : ‘I’m very sorry. But i think she only had herself to blame.’

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Mrs Birling : ‘ As if as girl of that sort would …’ (act 2)

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Mrs Birling : ‘ As if as girl of that sort would ever refuse money !’

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Sheila : ‘[with sudden alarm] Mother - stop - …’ (act 2)

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Sheila : ‘[with sudden alarm] Mother - stop ! - stop ! ‘

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Birling : (to sheila) : ‘[very sharply] You heard …’ (act 3)

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Birling : (to sheila) : ‘[very sharply] You heard what I said. ‘

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Eric : ‘… you’re not the kind of father a chap could go …’ (act 3)

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Eric : ‘… you’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble …’

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Birling : (To Eric) : ‘[furious, intervening] Why, you hysterical …’ (act 3)

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Birling : (To Eric) : ‘[furious, intervening] Why, you hysterical young fool - get back - or I’ll -‘

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Inspector : ‘We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We …’ (act 3)

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Inspector : ‘We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. ‘

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Sheila : ‘Everything we said had …’ (act 3)

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Sheila : ‘Everything we said had happened really had happened.’

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Birling : ‘[heartily] Nonsense ! you’ll …’ (act 3)

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Birling : ‘[heartily] Nonsense ! you’ll have a good laugh over it yet.’

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Sheila : ‘You began to learn something. And …’ ( act 3)

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Sheila : ‘You began to learn something. And now you’ve stopped.’

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Sheila : ‘And i hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet… ‘ (act 1)

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Sheila : ‘And i hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see.’

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Birling : ‘[thunderstruck] My God ! But - …’ (act 2)

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Birling : ‘[thunderstruck] My God ! But - look here - ‘ (act 2)

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Stage directions : ‘[As they stare guiltily and … ‘ (act 3)

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Stage directions : ‘[As they stare guiltily and dumbfounded, the curtain falls]’.

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‘substantial and heavily comfortable, but …’ (opening stage directions)

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‘substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike.’ (opening stage directions)

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‘Pink and _________ … brighter and ________’. (opening stage directions)

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‘Pink and intimate … brighter and harder’.

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‘… just clearing the table, which …’ (opening stage directions )

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‘… just clearing the table, which has no cloth .’

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Inspector : ‘Yes, but you can’t. It’s … ‘ (act 1)

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‘Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead. ‘ (act 1)

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Inspector : ‘… Their lives, their hopes and fears, …’ (act 3)

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nspector : ‘… Their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering, and chance of happiness …’

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Inspector : ‘Apologize for what - …’ (act 2)

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Inspector : ‘Apologize for what - doing my duty ?’

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Birling : ‘…Working together - for …’ (act 1)

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Birling : ‘…Working together - for lower costs and higher prices …’

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Birling : ‘You’ve a lot to learn yet. And I’m talking … ‘ (act 1)

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Birling : ‘You’ve a lot to learn yet. And I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business. ‘

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Birling : ‘And we don’t guess - we’ve …’ (act 1)

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Birling : ‘And we don’t guess - we’ve had experience - and we know. ‘

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Mrs Birling : ‘Besides, you’re not …’ (act 3)

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Mrs Birling : ‘Besides, you’re not that type - you don’t get drunk -‘

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Sheila : ‘… I’ll never, never do it …’ (act 1)

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Sheila : ‘… I’ll never, never do it again to anybody.’

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Sheila : ‘No, he’s giving us the rope - so …’ (act 2)

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Sheila : ‘No, he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves.’

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Sheila : ‘Mother - I begged you and ..’ (act 2)

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Sheila : ‘Mother - I begged you and begged you to stop -

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Eric : ‘Why shouldn’t they …(act 1)

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Eric : ‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages ? ‘.

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Eric : ‘… I hate these fat old tarts round the town - the … ‘ (act 3)

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Eric : ‘… I hate these fat old tarts round the town - the ones i see some of your respectable friends with -‘

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Eric : ‘… You killed them both - damn …’ (act 3)

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Eric : ‘… You killed them both - damn you, damn you -‘

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Gerald : ‘We’re respectable citizens and … ‘ (act 1)

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Gerald : ‘We’re respectable citizens and not criminals. ‘

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Gerald : ‘We can …’ (act 1)

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Gerald : ‘We can keep it from him.’

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Gerald : ‘She didn’t blame me at all. I … ‘ (act 2)

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Gerald : ‘She didn’t blame me at all. I wish to God she had now. ‘

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Inspector : ‘ there are millions and millions and …’ (act 3)

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Inspector : ‘ there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us.’

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Inspector : ‘She was here alone, friendless, …’ (act 2)

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Inspector : ‘She was here alone, friendless, almost penniless, desperate.’

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Inspector : ‘Just used her … as if she was …’ (act 3)

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Inspector : ‘Just used her … as if she was an animal, a thing, not a person’.

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Birling : ‘… there’ll be a public scandal - unless we’re lucky - and …’ (act 3)

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Birling : ‘… there’ll be a public scandal - unless we’re lucky - and who here will suffer from that more than i will ?’

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Sheila : ‘.. You don’t seem to …’ (act 3)

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Sheila : ‘.. You don’t seem to have learnt anything.’

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Eric : ‘You’re beginning to pretend now …’ (act 3)

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Eric : ‘You’re beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all.’

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Mrs Birling : ‘In the morning they’ll …’ (act 3)

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Mrs Birling : ‘In the morning they’ll be as amused as we are.’

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Gerald : ‘Everything’s all … ‘ (act 3)

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Gerald : ‘Everything’s all right now, Sheila. ‘

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Inspector : ‘… You might be said to ….’ (act 1)

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Inspector : ‘… You might be said to have been jealous of her.’

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Sybil : ‘… she called herself Mrs Birling … a …’ ( act 2)

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Sybil : ‘… she called herself Mrs Birling … a piece of ross impertinence.’

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Eric : ‘I wasn’t in love …’ (act 3)

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Eric : ‘I wasn’t in love with her or anything.’ (act 3)

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Arthur : ‘A man has to …’ (act 1)

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Arthur : ‘A man has to make his own way…’

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Inspector : ‘But she died in …’ (act 2)

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Inspector : ‘But she died in misery and agony - hating life-‘

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Birling : ‘As if we are all mixed up like bees in a hive -…’ (act 1)

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Birling : ‘As if we are all mixed up like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense.’

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Inspector : ‘It would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we …’ (act 1)

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Inspector : ‘It would do us all a bit of good if sometimes we tried to put ourselves in the place of these young women.’

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Sybil : ‘He certainly didn’t make me … ‘ (act 3)

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Sybil : ‘He certainly didn’t make me confess - as you call it. ‘

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Inspector :( to Sybil) ‘You must have known what she was feeling. And …’ (Act 2)

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Inspector :( to Sybil) ‘You must have known what she was feeling. And you slammed the door in her face.’

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Birling : ‘The fact is, you all allowed …’ (act 3)

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Birling : ‘The fact is, you all allowed yourselves to be bluffed.’

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Eric : ‘Its what happened to that girl and what …’ (act 3)

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Eric : ‘Its what happened to that girl and what we all did to her that matters.’

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Gerald : ‘She gave me a glance that was …’ (act 2)

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Birling : ‘She gave me a glance that was nothing less than a cry for help.’

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Birling : ‘We’re in for a time of …’ (act 1)

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Birling : ‘We’re in for a time of steadily increasing prosperity.’

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Birling : ‘unsinkable, … ‘ (act 1)

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Birling : ‘unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable ‘

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Birling : ‘Nothing to gain and everything …’ (act 1)

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Birling : ‘Nothing to gain and everything to lose from war nowadays.’

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Sheila : ‘But these girls aren’t …‘(act 1)

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Sheila : ‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people’.

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Sheila (To Arthur ) : ‘Oh - sorry. I didn’t know. Mummy …’ (act 1)

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heila (To Arthur ) : ‘Oh - sorry. I didn’t know. Mummy sent me in to ask you …’

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Eric : ‘[shouting] And i say the girls dead and we all helped to kill her - and …’ (act 3)

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Eric : ‘[shouting] And i say the girls dead and we all helped to kill her - and that’s what matters -‘

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Inspector : ‘A chain …’ (act 1)

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Inspector : ‘A chain of events …’

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Inspector (to sybil) : ‘ You’re going to spend the …’ (act 2)

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Inspector (to sybil) : ‘ You’re going to spend the rest of your life regretting it.’ (act 2)

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Inspector : ‘I haven’t …’ (act 3)

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Inspector : ‘I haven’t much time.’

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Gerald : ‘She told me she’d been happier than she’d ever been before - but …’ (act 2)

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Gerald : ‘She told me she’d been happier than she’d ever been before - but that she knew it couldn’t last -‘

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Inspector : ‘if men will not learn that lesson, then …’ (act 3)

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Inspector : ‘if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish’

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Sheila : ‘except for all last summer when you …’ (act 1)

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Sheila : ‘except for all last summer when you didnt come near me’.

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Gerald : ‘I don’t come into …’ (act 1)

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‘I don’t come into this suicide business’

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Gerald : ‘I didn’t install her there so …’ (act 2)

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Gerald : ‘I didn’t install her there so that i could make lover to her.’