All Kingsley Amis Quotes
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
Kingsley Amis
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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.
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There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
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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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He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
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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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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
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