Eric Birling Quotes Flashcards
“In his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”
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“Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages? We try for the highest
possible prices”
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“it isn’t as if you can go and work somewhere else.”
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“He could have kept her on instead of throwing her out. I call it tough luck.”
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“I’d have let her stay”
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“Well I was in that state when a chap easily turns nasty- and I
threatened to make a row”
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“And that’s when it happened. And I don’t even remember- that’s the hellish thing.”
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“I wasn’t in love with her or anything- but I liked her- she was pretty and a good sport-”
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“she didn’t want me to marry her. Said I didn’t love her- and all that. In a way, she treated me- as if I were a kid. Though I was nearly as old as she was.”
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“You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble- that’s why.”
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“Then- you killed her. She came to you to protect me- and you turned her away-yes, and you killed her-and the child she’d have had too- my child- your own grandchild- you killed them both- damn you, damn you-”
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“He was our police inspector all right”
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“(shouting) And I say the girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her- and that’s what matters-”
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