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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
Sir Kingsley William Amis
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The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.
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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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Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
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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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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
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Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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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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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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