Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and early short story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, both of which were adapted into films...
running soul world
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.
difference existed felt knew lack life natural security time whereas
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.
age-and-aging english-writer everybody life married suddenly thinks
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.
thinking people awareness
Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.