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.
Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for. - Kingsley Amis
Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
- Kingsley Amis
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. - Kingsley Amis
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. - Kingsley Amis
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch. - Kingsley Amis
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. - Kingsley Amis
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Part… - Kingsley Amis
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Part…
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them. - Kingsley Amis
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. - Kingsley Amis
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree. - Kingsley Amis
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
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