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“There were few people less touchy or feely than a Welsh coal miner in the forties. Fellas in south Wales didn’t grab one another—unless they were going to hit each other, in which case they felt free to grab what they liked.”
― Tom Jones, Tom Jones: Over the Top and Back

“From time to time people who knew us both would try to get us to make up. “Life’s too short, Tom.” But I’d only get bullish about that. “Too right. Life’s too short to be fucking about with Engelbert Humperdinck.”
― Tom Jones, Tom Jones: Over the Top and Back