Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
“{Rogers} sexual aim is “to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature who is the opposite of… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the past few… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
“I don't allow people of your sort to stand in my way. That's what you're leaving out of account. I'm having Christine because it's… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
“When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must be told. But when the ploughboy… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share
