Alan Sillitoe citations

Alan Sillitoe, né le 4 mars 1928 à Nottingham et mort le 25 avril 2010 à Londres, est un écrivain britannique, l'un des Angry Young Men des années 1950. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. mars 1928 – 25. avril 2010
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Alan Sillitoe: Citations en anglais

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

Alan Sillitoe livre Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Source: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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

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.”

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.”

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.”

"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 livre 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.”

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

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