Best Quotes by Kingsley Amis (Top 10)
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
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When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.
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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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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
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I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.
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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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More Kingsley Amis Quotes
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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 was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
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Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages.
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No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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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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He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
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