Kingsley Amis Quotes

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• Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
• 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…
• One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I…
• It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
• If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
• Cats are only human, they have their faults.
• A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.
• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't…
• The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
• I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
• 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, a…
• He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
• It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
• I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.
• Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
• Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of…
• The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss.…
• Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.
• A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

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