“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer.
"You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"”

"Sadie Thompson" in Altogether - Rain (1934)

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

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