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Kingsley Amis
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: April 16
Died: 1995
Died: October 22
Autobiographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Teacher
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Clapham Common Ward
Sir Kingsley William Amis
Kingsley William Amis
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Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
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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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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'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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Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.
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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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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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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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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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Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls).
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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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It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.
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Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.
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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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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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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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