Alan Sillitoe Life Quotations

He felt a lack of security. No place existed in all the world that could be called safe, and he knew for the first time in his life that there had never been any such thing as safety, and never would be, the difference being that now he knew it as a fact, whereas before it was a natural unconscious state.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

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.