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Алан Силлитоу — английский поэт и прозаик.

✵ 4. Март 1928 – 25. Апрель 2010
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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 know a bloody thing about me.”

Alan Sillitoe книга Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Источник: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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

Alan Sillitoe книга Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Источник: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

“Makes Room at the Top look like a vicarage tea-party.”

Alan Sillitoe

The Daily Telegraph, reviewing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; cited from The Bookseller, October 25, 1958, p. 1641.
Also used as a tagline for the 1960 film adaptation.
Criticism

“Few writers who have managed to acquire his reputation can have been so much at the mercy of crude emotion.”

Alan Sillitoe

Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975) vol. 1, p. 337.
Criticism

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

Alan Sillitoe

The Death of William Posters (London: W. H. Allen, 1965), p. 87.

“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.”

Alan Sillitoe

"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" (1958), from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003), p. 8.

“Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. So did Jack, he told me. You think you can go on all your life being single, I remember he said, but you suddenly find out that you can't.”

Alan Sillitoe книга Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958; repr. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959), p. 144.

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

Alan Sillitoe

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning as quoted by the Arctic Monkeys in the title of their album.