34 Quotes by Alan Sillitoe

With eleven pints of beer and seven small gins playing hide-and-seek inside his stomach, he fell from the top-most stair to the bottom.

Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you can't.

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.

It’s a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

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

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.

All I’m out for is a good time – all the rest is propaganda.

Everything’s dead, but good, because it’s dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive. That’s how I look at it.