“ Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble ”
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1913). copy citation
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
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Source | Pygmalion |
Topic | escape trouble |
Date | 1913 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3825/3825-h/3825-h.htm |
Context
“HIGGINS [heartily] Why, because it was my job.
LIZA. You never thought of the trouble it would make for me.
HIGGINS. Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed.
LIZA. I'm no preacher: I don't notice things like that. I notice that you don't notice me.
HIGGINS”
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