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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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• 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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• To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

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  Struggle, Writing, Risk

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

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• It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

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  Women, Fiction, Theme

  Kingsley Amis (2011). “The King's English”, p.299, Penguin UK

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• Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!

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  Cheer, Nice, Years

  Kingsley Amis (2016). “Collected Poems: 1944-1979”, p.117, New York Review of Books

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• I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.

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  Book, Taken, Writing

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• I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

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  Men, Hammers, Thumbs

  1979 Dissociating himself from that literary grouping, in The Eton College Chronicle, Jun.

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

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  Food, Cooking, Sometimes

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• Cats are only human, they have their faults.

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  Cat, Faults, Humans

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• Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

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  Atheist, Hate, Wells

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• He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.

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  Believe, Hangover

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

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  Girl, Love Is, Men

  1956 'A Bookshop Idyll'. See Byron181:73.

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• Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

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  Filling Up, Ice, Wife

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.

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  Thinking, Fiction, Use

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• A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

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  Girl, Men, Blonde

  Kingsley Amis (2011). “One Fat Englishman”, p.101, Penguin UK

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• Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

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  Feelings, Chaps

  Kingsley Amis (2011). “One Fat Englishman”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

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  Historical, Belief, Pleasant

  Kingsley Amis (2013). “The Green Man”, p.157, New York Review of Books

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• I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.

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  Mean, Eye, Light

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• We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

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  Orbit, Demand, Enough

  "What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions". Book by Kingsley Amis ("Phoenix Too Frequent" Critique of D. H. Lawrence), 1970.

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• It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

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  Food, Cooking, Dry

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