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Bert : I noticed that girl myself this morning, smashing bit of stuff. I shouldn't think she'd want aught to do with a madhead like you though.
Arthur Seaton : They all want a good time you can bet.
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Aunt Ada : Them was rotten days.
Arthur Seaton : I know, it won't happen again though, I can tell you that.
Bert : I was talking to a bloke the other day at the pit, he's always going on you know 'you can't beat the good old days'. So I got 'old of me pick and I said to him - 'you tell me anything else about them good old days as you call them and I'll split your stupid head open' - I would too.
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Arthur Seaton : It costs too much to get married, a lump sum down and your wages a week for life.
Bert : Most blokes ain't got aught else to work for, have they?
Arthur Seaton : No. I have though. I work for the factory, the income tax and the insurance already, that's enough for a bit. They rob you right, left and centre. After they've skinned you dry you get called up to the army and get shot to death.
Bert : That's how things are Arthur, no good going crackers over it. All you can do is go on working and hope that some day something good will turn up.
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Bert : Come on, what you frightened at, kiss won't hurt you.
Betty : What do you think I am, I don't even know you.
Bert : Well give us a kiss and then you will.
Betty : No, get off! You men are all the same.
Bert : I'm different.
Betty : You don't look like that to me.
Bert : Well I am, I think you're a little cracker.
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Bert : Did you get anywhere?
Arthur Seaton : No, you?
Bert : Nah, that Betty's barmy, she wouldn't let me get near her. Tell you, you've got to marry them these days before you get aught.
Arthur Seaton : Not if they're already married.
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Bert : I don't know how that ratface could do a thing like that.
Arthur Seaton : Cause she's a bitch and a whore, she's got no heart in her - she's a swivel-eyed git.
Bert : She wants pole-axing.
Arthur Seaton : Some people would nark on their mother, we're living in a jungle - we are and all. That bloke was a spineless bastard though, he should've run.
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Bert : You were born dead lucky, weren't you.
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Bert : You know I told you to lay off weeks ago, not that you took a blind bit of notice.
Arthur Seaton : Well you've gotta enjoy yourself.
Bert : You've got to keep your feet on the ground as well.
Arthur Seaton : I can't see much use in that. You see people settle down and before they know where they are they've kicked the bucket.
Bert : It ain't altogether like that.
Arthur Seaton : No, I now. It would be though if you didn't watch it.
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Arthur Seaton : I've still got some fight left in me, not like most people.
Bert : Not saying you ain't, but where does all this fighting get you?
Arthur Seaton : Have you ever seen where not fighting's got you?