'That's what life is - someone giving you a slapping and a load of crying.'
' I don't know if I pray, as such. If there's a God, he will know what I'm thinking anyway, won't he? And he knows the right thing to do, I suppose, or I hope so.'
'No, I just have a moan instead; that's my way of getting it out. That's what it is, isn't it? A posh moan, praying.'
' You are here. You get on with the job.'
' I've learned that you've got to look after people that It is very important to care for people, that you shouldn't be selfish, you should try to look after the old, the ill and the weak, then you'll never be stuck for something to do, coz there always will be someone to be looked after. It never stops. Yeah, there's no end.'
- 'Friends, huh.'
- 'You should get some of those.'
- 'Fine, I've got to go. Sorry, mother, I haven't turned out the way you wanted. I achieved enough. Obviously, I've been a disappointment to you.'
- ' Oh, it's always been the other way around and you know it, dear. On you go.'
' She'll get over it, at her 5-bedroom house. She ain't got a room for her mum, though.'
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