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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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

— Alan Sillitoe

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

— Alan Sillitoe

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

— Alan Sillitoe

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

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