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Alan Sillitoe
7 quotes
“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.”
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" (1958), from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003), p. 8.
“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.”
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner", from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003), p. 24.
“Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. So did Jack, he told me. You think you can go on all your life being single, I remember he said, but you suddenly find out that you can't.”
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958; repr. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959), p. 144.
“Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not.”
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.”
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Death of William Posters (London: W. H. Allen, 1965), p. 87.
“Few writers who have managed to acquire his reputation can have been so much at the mercy of crude emotion.”
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975) vol. 1, p. 337.
“Makes Room at the Top look like a vicarage tea-party.”
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) first seen 1641 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Daily Telegraph, reviewing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; cited from The Bookseller, October 25, 1958, p. 1641.