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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" Quotes

A working-class rebel navigates the contrasting worlds of hedonistic pleasure and mundane responsibility in 1950s Nottingham.

Quotes

I'm not religious myself, but you're no better than a dog when you cannae talk and you get no expression on your face. When I say something, I like to see the effect it has on people.

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

You mustn't despise the world because it's hell. You mustn't despise the world because it's empty.

Alan Sillitoe

I'm out to enjoy myself, and no bugger's going to bloody well stop me.

Alan Sillitoe

You want the world and you want it now. And it must include a bit of slushy kisses, a few bearable fertility symbols, and not a care for anyone but the old apples of your cheeks and the moist rivers of your tiny box of prowess!

Alan Sillitoe

What's the matter with you? I can't hear myself hit you.

Alan Sillitoe

We want the same and nowt'll part us.

Alan Sillitoe

When you're in his arms, you'll be back with your mother. That's where you'll be - don't forget it.

Alan Sillitoe

Any road, it's not just about fighting, it's about winning.

Alan Sillitoe

The boredom of having to live with music and rhyme and rhythm all your life.

Alan Sillitoe