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Alan Sillitoe was a British writer known for his novels depicting the lives of the working class. His works profoundly revealed the social conflicts and class differences in the mid-20th-century British industrial society.

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Famous Alan Sillitoe Quotes

“the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself”

Thinking Knows Littles Long Running Morning Happenings Distance Misery Long Distance Early Morning

Book:New and Collected Stories

Source: New and Collected Stories

“You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Should Moving Fall Courses Water Cases Cutting Picks Where You Are Bottles Mug Iodine

Book:New and Collected Stories

Source: New and Collected Stories

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

People Thinking Awareness

Author:Alan Sillitoe

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Bloody

Book:Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader

Source: Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader

“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.”

Thinking Age Goes On Married Cant Being Single Single Life

Author:Alan Sillitoe

About the Author

Born: March 4, 1928
Died: April 25, 2010
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 16

Books & Sources

New and Collected StoriesRelated source material

Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe ReaderRelated source material

The Death of William Posters: A NovelRelated source material

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance RunnerRelated source material

The far side of the street: fifteen short storiesRelated source material

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