Kingsley Amis ( 10 of 10 )
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so read more
I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven read more
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 Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare
No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâté than any other.
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâté than any other.
A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used read more
A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum.
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
