He felt a lack of security. No place existed in all the world that could be called safe, and he knew for the first time in his life that there had never been any such thing as safety, and never would be, the difference being that now he knew it as a fact, whereas before it was a natural unconscious state.
"Alan Sillitoe" was an English writer and one of the "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.
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The loneliness of the long-distance runner.
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