"Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about."
— Alan Sillitoe

January 1, 1970

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"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" (1958), from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003), p. 8.