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Kingsley Amis

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Kingsley Amis
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 16
Died: 1995
Died: October 22
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Teacher
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Clapham Common Ward
Sir Kingsley William Amis
Kingsley William Amis
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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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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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Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
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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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Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
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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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He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
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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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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
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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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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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Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
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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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Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
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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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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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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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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
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Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
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