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Kingsley Amis (Writer)

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of . 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.
— Kingsley Amis men
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
— Kingsley Amis end
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
— Kingsley Amis time
More will mean worse.
— Kingsley Amis will
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
— Kingsley Amis life
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
— Kingsley Amis war
There isn't another other sex.
— Kingsley Amis sex
Should you revisit us Stay a little longer And get to know the place... On local life we trust The resident witness Not the royal tourist.
— Kingsley Amis life
Be glad you're fifty — and That 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!
— Kingsley Amis world
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
— Kingsley Amis you
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
— Kingsley Amis writing
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
— Kingsley Amis love
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
— Kingsley Amis character
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.
— Kingsley Amis religion
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
— Kingsley Amis life
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.
— Kingsley Amis men
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
— Kingsley Amis
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
— Kingsley Amis night
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
— Kingsley Amis life
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
— Kingsley Amis man
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
— Kingsley Amis time
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
— Kingsley Amis faith
If you cant annoy somebody, theres little point in writing.
— Kingsley Amis writing
Mans love is of mans life a thing apart; Girls arent like that.A Bookshop Idyll Cf. Lord Byron, Don Juan, Mans love is of mans life a thing apart, / Tis womans whole existence.
— Kingsley Amis love

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