Alan Sillitoe

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1928-03-04 – 2010-04-25

Alan Sillitoe was an English writer associated with the Angry Young Men movement. He is best known for the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the story collection The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. His work focused on postwar British working-class life.

Quotes by Alan Sillitoe

I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know is there, and he'll never know what's there because he's stupid. I suppose you'll laugh at this, me saying the governor's a stupid bastard when I know hardly how to write and he can read and write and add-up like a professor. But what I say is true right enough. He's stupid, and I'm not, because I can see further into the likes of him than he can see into the likes of me.
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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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Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
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I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know is there, and he'll never know what's there because he's stupid. I suppose you'll laugh at this, me saying the governor's a stupid bastard when I know hardly how to write and he can read and write and add-up like a professor. But what I say is true right enough. He's stupid, and I'm not, because I can see further into the likes of him than he can see into the likes of me.
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The loneliness of the long-distance runner.
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