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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
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Kingsley Amis
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 16
Died: 1995
Died: October 22
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Sir Kingsley William Amis
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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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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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 not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
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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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Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.
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He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
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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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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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More always means worse.
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The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
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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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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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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.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
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Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
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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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