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Inspector calls quotes (Sheila ("Sheila is a pretty girl in her early…
Inspector calls quotes
Mr Birling
"Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairy easy manners but rather provincial in his speech"
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"Some people say that war's inevitable. And to that I say - fiddlesticks! The Germans don't want war. Nobody wants war"
Look Inspector - I'd give thousands - yes, thousands
"If you've got nothing more sensible than that to say, Sheila, you'd better keep quiet
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Mrs Birling
"His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husbands social superior"
"Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things"
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"He certainly didn't make me confess - as you call it. I told him quite plainly that I thought I had done no more than my duty
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Sheila
"Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited"
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"But these girls aren't cheap labour, they're people"
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Eric
Eric is in his early twenties, not quite as ease, half shy, half assertive
"(eagerly) yes, I remember - (but checks himself)"
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Then - you killed her ... you killed them both - my child - your own grandchild - you killed them both - damn you, damn you
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"You're beginning to pretend now that nothing's really happened at all .. The girl's still dead, isn't she?
And I say the girl's dead, and we all helped to kill her - and that's what matters
Inspector Goole
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"Creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidarity and purposefulness."
"Both Gerald and Eric rise to have a look at the photograph, but the inspector interposes himself between them and the photograph"
"Because what happened to her then may have determined what happened to her afterwards ... chain of events"
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Staring, subdued and wondering
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If you turn in, you might have to turn out again
Sometimes there isn't as much difference as you think. Often, if it was left to me, I wouldn't know where to draw the line
harsly Yes, but you can't. It's too late. She's dead
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Gender
"When you're married you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business. You'll have to get used to it, just as I had" Mrs B
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Class
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"She was giving herself ridiculous airs ... claiming elaborate fine feelings and scruples that were simply absurd for a girl in her position" Mrs B
If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth" Mr B
"He's a notorious womaniser, as well as being one of the worst sots and rogues in Brumley." Gerald
"As if she was an animal, a thing, not a person" Inspector
Social Responsibility
"You'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive -Community and all that nonsense" Mr B
"The Titanic ... unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable" Mr B
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One Eva Smith has gone, but there are millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us" Goole
There'll be peace and prosperity everywhere and rapid progress everywhere - except of course in Russia" Mr B
"Their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives, and what we think and say and do" Goole
A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his family too, of course." Mr B
"Still, I can't accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we'd ever had anything to do with, it would be very awkward" Mr B
Age
"What an expression, Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!" Mrs B
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"The famous young generation who know it all. And they can't even take a joke - The telephone rings sharply Mr B
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