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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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Kingsley Amis
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 16
Died: 1995
Died: October 22
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I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.
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With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.
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I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.
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It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
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I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.
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Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.
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Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
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Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
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Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
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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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Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.
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Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
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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 love of detail and organization.
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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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He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
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More always means worse.
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