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You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

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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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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.

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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.

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The loneliness of the long-distance runner.

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Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not.

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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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Alan Sillitoe

Alan Sillitoe
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Born: March 4, 1928
Died: April 25, 2010 (aged 82)
Bio: Alan Sillitoe was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.
Known for:
  1. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959)
  2. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
  3. Life without armour (1995)
  4. A Start In Life (1970)
  5. New and Collected Stories (2001)

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