Kingsley Amis Quotes

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

Kingsley Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Jim Carrey

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I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

John Paul DeJoria

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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John le Carre

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We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

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I'd be 100 percent supportive of a minimum wage - kind of industry specific, maybe regionally specific - for guest workers, so that we're not creating incentives for employers to bring in immigrants to lower the price of labor.

Ron Johnson

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Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' tour was incredible.

Daya

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A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Pierre Bonnard

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Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.

Pete Sessions

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I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

Paul Westerberg

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We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Todd Gitlin

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'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir.

Tim O'Brien

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