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Kingsley Amis
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 16
Died: 1995
Died: October 22
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Clapham Common Ward
Sir Kingsley William Amis
Kingsley William Amis
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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.
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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
Kingsley Amis
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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Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
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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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Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
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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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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
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I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.
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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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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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More always means worse.
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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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Man's love is of man's life a thing apartGirls aren't like that.
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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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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.
Kingsley Amis
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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He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
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It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.
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