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Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
Kingsley Amis
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Kingsley Amis
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 16
Died: 1995
Died: October 22
Autobiographer
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Clapham Common Ward
Sir Kingsley William Amis
Kingsley William Amis
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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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Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
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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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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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