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Alan Sillitoe

Geburtstag:4. März 1928
Todesdatum:25. April 2010

Alan Sillitoe war ein britischer Schriftsteller, der vor allem durch seine Erzählung „Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers“ bekannt wurde.

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„Wer ist denn glücklich? Die Reichen? - Niemand ist glücklich, erklärte Frank, so etwas wie Glück gibt es nicht - es sei denn, man arbeitet an einer Aufgabe, die einem selbst und gleichzeitig anderen Leuten hilft.“

— Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe: Der Tod des William Posters. Deutsch von Peter Naujack, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-436-01519-9, S. 229

„Wir müssen mehr Menschen lieben als bloß einander. Die alte Vorstellung von Liebe gleitet dem Weltmenschen von heute aus der Hand wie ein in tausend Farben schillerndes Fährschiff, das in die offene See sticht.“

— Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe: Der Tod des William Posters. Deutsch von Peter Naujack, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-436-01519-9, S. 218

Über Liebe, über menschen

„Alles ist darauf ausgerichtet, daß man sich selbst verzehrt - die ganze Art, in der diese Gesellschaft funktioniert. Sehen Sie sich doch um, sprechen Sie mit jemandem über sein Leben oder seine Arbeit, drehen Sie den Rundfunk oder das Fernsehen an, und es wird sagen: >Friß dich selbst auf. Vorwärts, friß dich auf - knirsch, knirsch.< “

— Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe: Der Tod des William Posters. Deutsch von Peter Naujack, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-436-01519-9, S. 158

„Und wenn ich nicht erwischt werde, wird mich der, dem ich die Geschichte geb, nie verraten; der wohnt schon, solange ich denken kann, in unserer Häuserzeile, und er ist mein Freund. Das eine weiß ich.“

— Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe: Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Günther Klotz, Diogenes Verlag, Zürich 1967, ISBN 3-257-20413-2, S. 70

„Als ob irgend jemand jemals sagt, was er denkt. Es ist immer das, was jemand anders denkt - nur anders formuliert.“

— Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe: Der Tod des William Posters. Deutsch von Peter Naujack, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969, ISBN 3-436-01519-9, S. 81

„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
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

„All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.“

— Alan Sillitoe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

„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.“

— Alan Sillitoe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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

— Alan Sillitoe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

„the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself“

— Alan Sillitoe
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

„Don't let the bastards get you down.“

— Alan Sillitoe

„I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know is there, and he'll never know what's there because he's stupid. I suppose you'll laugh at this, me saying the governor's a stupid bastard when I know hardly how to write and he can read and write and add-up like a professor. But what I say is true right enough. He's stupid, and I'm not, because I can see further into the likes of him than he can see into the likes of me.“

— Alan Sillitoe
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

„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 you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.“

— Alan Sillitoe
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

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

— Alan Sillitoe

„On his first parade the sergeant-major exclaimed that he couldn't make out the shape of Arthur's head because there was so much hair on it, and Arthur jocularly agreed to get it cut, intending to forget about it until the fifteen days was over, which he did. 'You're a soldier now, not a Teddy-boy,' the sergeant-major said, but Arthur knew he was wrong in either case. He was nothing at all when people tried to tell him what he was. Not even his own name was enough, though it might be on on his pay-book. What am I? he wondered. A six-foot pit-prop that wants a pint of ale. That's what I am. And if any knowing bastard says that's what I am, I'm a dynamite-dealer, Sten-gun seller, hundred-ton tank trader, a capstan-lathe operator waiting to blow the army to Kingdom Cum. I'm me and nobody else; and what 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
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

„Once a rebel, always a rebel. You can't help being one. You can't deny that. And it's best to be a rebel so as to show 'em it don't pay to try to do you down. Factories and labour exchanges and insurance offices keep us alive and kicking - so they say - but they're booby-traps and will suck you under like sinking-sands if you're not careful. Factories sweat you to death, labour exchanges talk you to death, insurance and income tax offices milk money from your wage packets and rob you to death. And if you're still left with a tiny bit of life in your guts after all this boggering about, the army calls you up and you get shot to death. And if you're clever enough to stay out of the army you get bombed to death. Ay, by God, it's a hard life if you don't weaken, if you don't stop that bastard government from grinding your face in the muck, though there ain't much you can do about it unless you start making dynamite to blow their four-eyed clocks to bits.“

— Alan Sillitoe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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