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 adolescense, 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.
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…
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.
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 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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