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Kingsley Amis Quote: “When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I’m going to show them, this time.”

51. “When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I’m going to show them, this time.”

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Kingsley Amis Quote: “It is a poor mind that is never in conflict.”

52. “It is a poor mind that is never in conflict.”

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Kingsley Amis Quote: “If you want to behave better and feel better, the only absolutely certain method is drinking less. But to find out how to do that, you will have to find a more expert expert than I shall ever be.”

53. “If you want to behave better and feel better, the only absolutely certain method is drinking less. But to find out how to do that, you will have to find a more expert expert than I shall ever be.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Whatever part drink may play in the writer’s life, it must play none in his or her work.”

54. “Whatever part drink may play in the writer’s life, it must play none in his or her work.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “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.”

55. “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: “He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.”

56. “He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – SAMUEL JOHNSON.”

57. “There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – SAMUEL JOHNSON.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death.”

58. “Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.”

59. “We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand’s work unfavorably.”

60. “For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand’s work unfavorably.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “A man’s sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to an animal which is pretending not to be an animal that it is an animal.”

61. “A man’s sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to an animal which is pretending not to be an animal that it is an animal.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.”

62. “Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “If you want to finish the evening with your usual number of fingers, do any cutting-up, peel-slicing and the like before you have had more than a couple of drinks, preferably before your first.”

63. “If you want to finish the evening with your usual number of fingers, do any cutting-up, peel-slicing and the like before you have had more than a couple of drinks, preferably before your first.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.”

64. “It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.”

65. “I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “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.”

66. “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

Kingsley Amis Quote: “It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.”

67. “It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Why couldn’t they leave him alone? Why couldn’t every single one of them without exception whatsoever just go right away from where he was and leave him alone?”

68. “Why couldn’t they leave him alone? Why couldn’t every single one of them without exception whatsoever just go right away from where he was and leave him alone?”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Time, plenty of it came to the rescue here: Kelly was to engage in self-expression. In Jake’s vocabulary this was a vague term applied to activities like swearing and children’s art but in the present context it evidently meant something more specific. The girl at once left her chair, sat down on one of the more affluent patches of carpet and clasped her knees.”

69. “Time, plenty of it came to the rescue here: Kelly was to engage in self-expression. In Jake’s vocabulary this was a vague term applied to activities like swearing and children’s art but in the present context it evidently meant something more specific. The girl at once left her chair, sat down on one of the more affluent patches of carpet and clasped her knees.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on.”

70. “To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf.”

71. “Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Let complication thrive.”

72. “Let complication thrive.”

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Kingsley Amis Quote: “The Scandinavians are dear people but they’ve never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?”

73. “The Scandinavians are dear people but they’ve never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “The real trouble with liars... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth.”

74. “The real trouble with liars... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Beware of curiously shaped or oddly-got-up bottles: you are likely to be paying for the parcel rather than what is wrapped up in it.”

75. “Beware of curiously shaped or oddly-got-up bottles: you are likely to be paying for the parcel rather than what is wrapped up in it.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “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.”

76. “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

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Everybody had been in their twenties then; well, round about thirty. Now, from round about seventy, all those years of maturity or the prime of life or whatever you called it looked like an interval between two bouts of vomiting.”

77. “Everybody had been in their twenties then; well, round about thirty. Now, from round about seventy, all those years of maturity or the prime of life or whatever you called it looked like an interval between two bouts of vomiting.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European...”

78. “Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European...”

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Kingsley Amis Quote: “I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig’s milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.”

79. “I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig’s milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.”

— Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis Quote: “He disliked this girl and her boy-friend so much that he couldn’t understand why they didn’t dislike each other.”

80. “He disliked this girl and her boy-friend so much that he couldn’t understand why they didn’t dislike each other.”

— Kingsley Amis

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