Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. So … - Alan Sillitoe

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Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. So did Jack, he told me. You think you can go on all your life being single, I remember he said, but you suddenly find out that you can't.

Alan Sillitoe

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Alan Sillitoe (March 4, 1928 – April 25, 2010) was an English novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, essayist and poet, who first came to prominence as one of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s.

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