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.


"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" (1958), from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003), p. 8.


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.

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.

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.

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.