Alan Sillitoe Quotes

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

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

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

Don't let the bastards get you down.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

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 know a bloody thing about me.

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

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

I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say.

Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

Hope to the very end, he told himself, even when you've slipped into the fires of Hell and the flames are searing your guts.

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.