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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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Clapham Common Ward
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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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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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.
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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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Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
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More always means worse.
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Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
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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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He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
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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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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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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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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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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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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
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Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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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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