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• I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.

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  Firsts, Faults, Knows

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.

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  Champion, Matter, Causes

  Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow

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• Sex stops when you pull up your pants,
  Love never lets you go.

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  Love, Sex, Pull Ups

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• 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.

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  Doctors, Knowing, People

  Kingsley Amis (1958). “Lucky Jim: A Novel”, Queens House, Incorporated

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• One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

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  Mean, Forgiving, Benefits

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• A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

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  Wine, Labels, Too Short

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• Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

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  Death, Bed, Said

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• Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

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  Attitude, Love You, Ignorance

  Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

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• More always means worse.

  Kingsley Amis

  Mean

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• It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.

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  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

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  Play, May, Drink

  Kingsley Amis (1991). “Memoirs”, Vintage

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• I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.

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  Mean, Writing, Years

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• Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

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  Self, Criticism, Employment

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• When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

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  Strong, Writing, Wine

  "Toast of the town" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.

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• Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

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  Reputation, Now And Then, Conscious

  Kingsley Amis (1991). “Memoirs”, Vintage

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• Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

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  Nice, Nasty, Nice Things

  Kingsley Amis (2012). “Lucky Jim”, New York Review of Books

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• Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

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  Art, Thinking, Elements

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• Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)."

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  Sex, Hangover, Hydration

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• He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

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  Funny, Faith, Humorous

  One Fat Englishman (1963) ch. 8

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• A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

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  Wine, Organization, Details

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• Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

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  Common Sense, Motto, Peril

  Kingsley Amis (2011). “Stanley And The Women”, p.226, Random House

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• Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

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  Cat, Over You, Way

  1960 Take A Girl Like You, ch.5.

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• Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

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  Instruction, Worthy, One Thing

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• Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

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  Funny, Food, Men

  'One Fat Englishman' (1963) ch. 3.

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• I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

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  Animal, Looks, Behaviour

  Kingsley Amis, Zachary Leader (2000). “The letters of Kingsley Amis”, HarperCollins

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