For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a vi… - Alan Sillitoe
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a vi…
- Alan Sillitoe
I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me. - Alan Sillitoe
I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.
Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked hou… - Alan Sillitoe
Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked hou…
All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda. - Alan Sillitoe
All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women. - Alan Sillitoe
You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case y… - Alan Sillitoe
You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case y…
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have not… - Alan Sillitoe
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have not…
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 … - Alan Sillitoe
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 …
Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken. - Alan Sillitoe
Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
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