"Consciousness was upon him before he could get……" — Kingsley Amis
"Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way."
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42 Quotes by Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis has 42 quotes on this site.
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
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Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it…
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One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a…
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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Cats are only human, they have their faults.
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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's…
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When…
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The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic…
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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in…
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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More Consciousness Quotes
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was…
— Dan Aykroyd
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
— Leonard Bernstein
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one…
— Theodor Adorno
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Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from…
— Steven Biko
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make…
— Steven Biko
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As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.
— Juliette Binoche
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Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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