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No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
Kingsley Amis
Life
People
Children
Wonder
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis
Faith
Church
Sense
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
Kingsley Amis
Night
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis
Writing
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
Life
People
Children
Wonder
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis
Incompetence
Journalism
Laziness
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.
Kingsley Amis
Religion
Benefits
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Kingsley Amis
Man
Trying
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.
Kingsley Amis
Action
Virtue
Criticism
First
Self
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
Kingsley Amis
Love
Sex
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Kingsley Amis
End
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis
Life
People
Children
Wonder