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Kingsley Amis Quotes

Kingsley Amis quotes

English Writer April 22, 1922 – October 22, 1995

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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... Kingsley Amis
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
Kingsley Amis quote: "Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and..."
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis quote: "Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go."
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. Kingsley Amis
... 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
Kingsley Amis quote: "No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as..."
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. Kingsley Amis
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
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... Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis quote: "The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing..."
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. Kingsley Amis
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 Kingsley Amis
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
Kingsley Amis quote: "It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to..."
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. Kingsley Amis
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
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
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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