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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.
Kingsley Amis
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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
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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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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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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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More always means worse.
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Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
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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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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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He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
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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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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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Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.
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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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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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