Belief Quote by Kingsley Amis

“It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.” quote by Kingsley Amis — Download Open image

“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

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If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

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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…

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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…

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“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 months of years so much as all of them: their concern with the surface of things, with objects and appearances, with their surroundings and how they looked and sounded in them, with seeming to be better…

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“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 my right. Do you understand that? If I'm after something, I don't care what I do to make sure that I get it. That's the only law I abide by; it's the only was to get…

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