"For it was Saturday night, the best and……" — Alan Sillitoe
"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 night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts."
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Alan Sillitoe
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12 Quotes by Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe has 12 quotes on this site.
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Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.
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I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because…
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If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at…
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You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
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Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single,…
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Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led…
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All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
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the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little…
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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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You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people…
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered…
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