Kingsley Amis Quotes

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

Kingsley Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 22, 1922 - October 22, 1995

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NightSmallMouthUsedBeenSome

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

Jeffrey Sachs

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Aneurin Bevan

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It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

Michael Hirst

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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

Mercy Otis Warren

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We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce.

John Thune

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I'm so ludicrously lucky, it would be disgusting if I didn't acknowledge it.

Troye Sivan

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What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.

Trevor Noah

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How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Tom Douglas

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AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.

Mary Whitehouse

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I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

Mickey Rooney

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We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.

Louise L. Hay

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In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

Desiigner

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