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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.

— Alan Sillitoe The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1958)

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You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not.

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.

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

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