“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, book Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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

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