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1. "Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust." ~ Kingsley Amis
2. "SF's NO GOOD!They bellow 'til we're deafBut =this= is goodWell, then, it's not SF!" ~ Kingsley Amis
3. "There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable." ~ Kingsley Amis
4. "The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them." ~ Kingsley Amis
5. "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." ~ Kingsley Amis
6. "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
7. "Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music." ~ Kingsley Amis
8. "You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescence, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time." ~ Kingsley Amis
9. "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." ~ Kingsley Amis
10. "Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse." ~ Kingsley Amis
11. "Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: "Shall we go straight in?" ~ Kingsley Amis
12. "It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with." ~ Kingsley Amis
13. "He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in common with him if she only knew him." ~ Kingsley Amis
14. "I don't allow people of your sort to stand in my way. That's what you're leaving out of account. I'm having Christine because it's my right. Do you understand that? If I'm after something, I don't care what I do to make sure that I get it. That's the only law I abide by; it's the only was to get things in this world...With me you just haven't a hope in hell." ~ Kingsley Amis
15. "I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other." ~ Kingsley Amis
16. "It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children." ~ Kingsley Amis
17. "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
18. "He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again." ~ Kingsley Amis
19. "He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic." ~ Kingsley Amis
20. "His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum." ~ Kingsley Amis
21. "It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children." ~ Kingsley Amis
22. "No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children." ~ Kingsley Amis
23. "Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in." ~ Kingsley Amis
24. "There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." ~ Kingsley Amis
25. "Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence." ~ Kingsley Amis
26. "If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." ~ Kingsley Amis
27. "Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go." ~ Kingsley Amis
28. "Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothing. That's what scares women, you know.''I do know, and you needn't be scared. I feel something all right.''Promise me you'll always treat me as a person.''I promise.''Promises are so easily given.''I'll fulfill this one. Let me show you.'After a shaky start he was comfortably in the swing of it, having recognised he was on familiar ground after all. Experience had brought him to see that this kind of thing was nothing more than the levying of cock-tax, was reasonable and normal, in fact, even though some other parts of experience strongly suggested that what he had shelled out so far was only a down payment." ~ Kingsley Amis
29. "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." ~ Kingsley Amis
30. "...he could sense her breathing, her temple against his jaw and her shoulder under his hand were warm, her hair smelt of well-brushed hair, he could feel the presence of her body..." ~ Kingsley Amis
31. "For a man as keen as he on getting into bed with women, keeping hidden the full enormity of his fatness was a chronic problem. Its most acute form naturally came up when someone new had to be hustled or cajoled past the point of no return. That point tended to get later and later as his belly waxed." ~ Kingsley Amis
32. "Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him." ~ Kingsley Amis
33. "Death has this much to be said for it:You don't have to get out of bed for it.Wherever you happen to beThey bring it to you—free." ~ Kingsley Amis
34. "... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face." ~ Kingsley Amis
35. "I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen." ~ Kingsley Amis
36. "education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another." ~ Kingsley Amis
37. "America takes her writers too seriously." ~ Kingsley Amis
38. "To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question." ~ Kingsley Amis
39. "Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad." ~ Kingsley Amis

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