"The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood."

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Source : Alan Sillitoe (1988). “The far side of the street: fifteen short stories”

Alan Sillitoe

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“But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.”
“Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them.”
“Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.”
“The next movement is still in the factory.”
“During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.”
“The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.”
“Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.”
“I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity ...”

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