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Kingsley Amis
English
Novelist
About the author
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#Life
#People
#Wonder
#Children
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#End
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Sex
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,
English
Novelist
#Action
#First
#Self
#Virtue
#Criticism
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Trying
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,
English
Novelist
#Religion
#Benefits
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#Journalism
#Incompetence
#Laziness
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#Life
#People
#Wonder
#Children
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#Writing
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#Night
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#Sense
#Faith
#Church
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
Kingsley Amis,
English
Novelist
#Life
#People
#Wonder
#Children