For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
“The rowdy gang of singers who sat at the scattered tables saw Arthur walk unsteadily to the head of the stairs, and though they must have all known that he was dead drunk, and seen the danger he would soon… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
“On his first parade the sergeant-major exclaimed that he couldn't make out the shape of Arthur's head because there was so much hair on… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
“And when the governor kept saying how 'we' wanted you to do this; and 'we' wanted you to do that, I kept looking round… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
“Gulls, aeroplaning above the chimney pots, were calling that he must talk to Laura about his plans. He needed no telling, for once in… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
“I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say.” — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken. — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
“Once a rebel, always a rebel. You can't help being one. You can't deny that. And it's best to be a rebel so as… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women. — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
