Alan Sillitoe quotes

Alan Sillitoe was a British writer and one of the leading figures of the "Angry Young Men" literary movement. His works, such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," offered raw and realistic portrayals of working-class life in postwar England. He became renowned for his distinctive voice and profound social commentary. Here are 9 of his quotes:

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not. (Alan Sillitoe)
You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
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. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
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. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda. View quote
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Makes Room at the Top look like a vicarage tea-party. View quote
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Few writers who have managed to acquire his reputation can have been so much at the mercy of crude emotion. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
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. View quote
Alan Sillitoe

Alan Sillitoe

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Photo: Ian brown LRPS, GFDL
Occupation: British Writer
Born: March 4, 1928
Died: April 25, 2010
Quotes count: 9
Wikipedia: Alan Sillitoe

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