Bruce Pritchard
Hey, don't cry.There's nothing to cry about.
Jill Matthews
I'm not.
Bruce Pritchard
It's no good being in love if it makes you cry.
Jill Matthews
I'm not crying.
Bruce Pritchard
I only want to make you happy.
Jill Matthews
Oh, you do.
Bruce Pritchard
What?
Jill Matthews
You do.
Bruce Pritchard
That's why you're crying? Because you're happy? You're going to be crying for all your married life, then.
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Bruce Pritchard
Do you realize I'm twenty-four years old? Feel more like bloody sixty.
Terry
Aye, you look bloody sixty as well.
Bruce Pritchard
My looks are the results of my efforts to become a great writer.
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Bruce Pritchard
It does matter. Everything matters. If I don't believe that, I've had it.
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Bruce Pritchard
I hate that bloody Geoffery, 'cause he kissed you before I did.
Jill Matthews
I didn't know you then, did I?
Bruce Pritchard
Just as well, you wouldn't have looked at me twice. I'm much nicer a cripple.
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Sarah
Are you a writer?
Bruce Pritchard
Not really. Trying to be.
Sarah
What do you write about?
Bruce Pritchard
This and that.
Sarah
What, thrillers? Love stories?
Bruce Pritchard
Why should I write love stories?
Sarah
People do, you know. Even people in wheelchairs.
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[Mocking abled patrons at a charity event]
Bruce Pritchard
How fascinating! Some of them can move!
Jill Matthews
Yes, and they speak, too. That one talked so clearly.
Bruce Pritchard
Have you noticed, some of them have got five fingers. That bloke over there's got it.
Jill Matthews
Sad, isn't it? Doctors say five fingers on the hand is almost impossible to cure.
Bruce Pritchard
Oh, they get it from shaking, you know.
Jill Matthews
Still, they all look terribly cheerful.
Bruce Pritchard
Oh yes, some of them are very brave. Imagine, going through life on legs.
Jill Matthews
Yes, and you'd be surprised how clever they are on those legs, once they get used to them. You know, some of them even dance.
Bruce Pritchard
How fascinating! Do you think they'll dance for us?
Jill Matthews
Oh no, they only do that on special occasions. They have to have injections first.
Bruce Pritchard
What kind of injections?
Jill Matthews
They inject them with gin.
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Bruce Pritchard
I'm not getting at you or anything but, have you ever done it with Gladys?
Harold
No, I never have.
Bruce Pritchard
With anybody?
Harold
Not really.
Bruce Pritchard
What does that mean?
Harold
Well, you know, not really.
Bruce Pritchard
Well, you're lucky. It's not that much. It's not that much without love.
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Terry
You alright?
Bruce Pritchard
'Course I'm alright. I'm so alright I wish to be alone.
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[Opening lines - reciting part of the poem In My Craft or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas] Not for the proud man apart from the raging moon I write on these spindrift pages, nor for the towering dead with their nightingales and psalms, but for the lovers, their arms round the griefs of the ages, who pay no praise or wages, nor heed my craft or art.
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Mr. Latbury
I understand from the vicar that you haven't been inside our church since you arrived here.
Rev. Corbett
Well, I daresay we shall see him admitted to the kingdom of heaven in the end, Mr. Latbury.
Bruce Pritchard
No, not me. Deuteronomy, chapter twenty three, verse one, and I quote; He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the lord. That's me, ladies and gentlemen.
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