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One Quotes by Kingsley Amis
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.…
- If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that 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.
- The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
- Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
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