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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis
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Kingsley Amis
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 16
Died: 1995
Died: October 22
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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
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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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Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
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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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Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
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Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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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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Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls).
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Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!
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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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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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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
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Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.
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