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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 a procedure.
Kingsley Amis
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Kingsley Amis
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 16
Died: 1995
Died: October 22
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Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.
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Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apartGirls aren't like that.
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He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
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