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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

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Alan Sillitoe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 4
Died: 2010
Died: April 25
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