Adrian Mitchell citations

Adrian Mitchell, né le 24 octobre 1932 à Hampstead Heath et mort le 20 décembre 2008 à North London, est un dramaturge britannique. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. octobre 1932 – 20. décembre 2008
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Adrian Mitchell: Citations en anglais

“May I borrow your wheelbarrow?
— I didn't lay down my life in World War II
so that you could borrow my wheelbarrow”

"Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).

“Lovers lie around in it
Broken glass is found in it
Grass
I like that stuff”

"Stufferation", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).
Other stanzas follow this pattern. Roger McGough wrote a version with the refrain "I like that stuff".

“I would have walked on the water
But I wasn't fully insured.
And the BMA sent a writ my way
With the very first leper I cured.”

"The Liberal Christ Gives a Press Conference", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).

“Here are some happy English soldiers.
They are going to make the Irish happy.”

"A Tourist Guide to England", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).

“I was run over by the truth one day.
Ever since the accident I've walked this way”

"To Whom It May Concern", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991)
Written in 1965, after hearing British troops might be sent to the Vietnam War.

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