Alan Sillitoe Quotes
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All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
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If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
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The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
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Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.
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You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
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Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
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Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.
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Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.
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The long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself