“It's no good fooling about with love, you know. You can't fall into it like a soft job without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. If you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice tidy soul, you better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint, because you'll never make it as a human being. It's either this world... or the next.” LoveHumanityDramaLivingJimmy Porter Book:Look Back in Anger Source: Look Back in Anger
“If one word applied to that post-war decade it was inertia. Enthusiasm there was not, in this climate of fatigue. Jimmy Porter was hurt because things had remained the same. Colonel Redfern grieved that everything had changed. They were both wrong, but that was hard to see at the time.” 1950sAngry Young ManPostwarLook Back In AngerPostwar BritainJimmy Porter Book:Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise Source: Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise