How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. - Kingsley Amis
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
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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