A Start in Life Quotes

“there was enough love floating around to keep us human, but not enough to keep us warm.”
― Alan Sillitoe, A Start In Life

“(Almanack Jack talking to Michael Cullen) - The unemployed should be treated as great gifts to a nation, because if they didn’t in their largeness of spirit agree to be unemployed, all the other toffee-nosed bastards who’ve got jobs couldn’t hold them. The unemployed should be fed and pampered, given double pay to what they’d get if they were working. There should be special centres where they could queue up for a daily ration of cigars. One prominent motto of my Democratic Republic of Euphoria would be: Hail to the unemployable, because they should inherit the earth in payment for letting the guilt-ridden neurotics of the world work.”
― Alan Sillitoe, A Start in Life

“(Michael Cullen talking to his mother) - You told me I never had a father, regretting such a stupid phrase when she replied: ‘Who do you think you are, Jesus Christ? I’ll get you a cross from Littlewoods if you like, or maybe I’ll rent one for three days”
― Alan Sillitoe, A Start in Life