Quote by Kingsley Amis Download Open image ““...even the straightest Of issues looks pretty oblique When a movement turns into a clique...”” — Kingsley Amis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had 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 Image
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