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Alan Sillitoe has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 they don't…
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If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No…
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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, but you…
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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…
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All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
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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…
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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 life, I…
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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 holding mugs…
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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 or tell…
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I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to…
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Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing…
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Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made…
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..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in…
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In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt…
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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 or tell…
— Alan Sillitoe
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Take events logically one by one; ask yourself what is your dharma pertaining to a given event; and do it; and move…
— T Joseph Benziger
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