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Kingsley Amis quotes: If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed. Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Kingsley Amis quotes: He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover. He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Kingsley Amis quotes: The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
Kingsley Amis quotes: He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in common with him if she only knew him. He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in common with him if she only knew him.
Kingsley Amis quotes: It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat. It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.
Kingsley Amis quotes: More always means worse. More always means worse.
Kingsley Amis quotes: He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis quotes: I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it. I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.
Kingsley Amis quotes: It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction. It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
Kingsley Amis quotes: There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON
Kingsley Amis quotes: Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him. Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'
Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
Kingsley Amis quotes: There are other things to a woman than taking her to bed. There are other things to a woman than taking her to bed.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food. Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage. Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto. Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
Kingsley Amis quotes: It is a poor mind that is never in conflict. It is a poor mind that is never in conflict.
Kingsley Amis quotes: The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times. The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Let complication thrive. Let complication thrive.
Kingsley Amis quotes: When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time. When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time. Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
Kingsley Amis quotes: I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root. I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.
Kingsley Amis quotes: The real trouble with liars ... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth. The real trouble with liars ... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth.
Kingsley Amis quotes: We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it
Kingsley Amis quotes: No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
Kingsley Amis quotes: America takes her writers too seriously. America takes her writers too seriously.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Sex stops when you pull up your pants,Love never lets you go. Sex stops when you pull up your pants,
Love never lets you go.
Kingsley Amis quotes: For the first time he really felt that it was no use trying to save those who fundamentally would rather not be saved. For the first time he really felt that it was no use trying to save those who fundamentally would rather not be saved.
Kingsley Amis quotes: A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for. A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
Kingsley Amis quotes: It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis quotes: I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
Kingsley Amis quotes: It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children. It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis quotes: If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis quotes: I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer. I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
Kingsley Amis quotes: A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch. A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them. Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
Kingsley Amis quotes: If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis quotes: With all respect to James Bond, a martini should be stirred, not shaken. With all respect to James Bond, a martini should be stirred, not shaken.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Nice things are nicer than nasty ones. Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf. Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
Kingsley Amis quotes: The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that is should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree. The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that is should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
Kingsley Amis quotes: He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
Kingsley Amis quotes: For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably. For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Beware of curiously shaped or oddly-got-up bottles: you are likely to be paying for the parcel rather than what is wrapped up in it. Beware of curiously shaped or oddly-got-up bottles: you are likely to be paying for the parcel rather than what is wrapped up in it.
Kingsley Amis quotes: To write things down as luck wasn't the same as writing them off as non-existent or in some way beneath consideration. To write things down as luck wasn't the same as writing them off as non-existent or in some way beneath consideration.
Kingsley Amis quotes: A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy. A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for. Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another. Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
Kingsley Amis quotes: I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen. I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in? Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in?
Kingsley Amis quotes: The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they? The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
Kingsley Amis quotes: If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong. If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
Kingsley Amis quotes: There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable. There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable.
Kingsley Amis quotes: SF's NO GOOD!They bellow 'til we're deafBut =this= is goodWell, then, it's not SF! SF's NO GOOD!
They bellow 'til we're deaf
But =this= is good
Well, then, it's not SF!
Kingsley Amis quotes: His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
Kingsley Amis quotes: It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work. Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.
Kingsley Amis quotes: I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is. I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.
Kingsley Amis quotes: I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not. I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis quotes: You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation. You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.
Kingsley Amis quotes: It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ... Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ...
Kingsley Amis quotes: {Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted. {Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted.
Kingsley Amis quotes: Cats are only human, they have their faults. Cats are only human, they have their faults.

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