Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'

"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

Kingsley Amis

Tags: god religion atheism misotheism



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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.

Kingsley Amis


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There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable.

Kingsley Amis

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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.

Kingsley Amis


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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Kingsley Amis


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

Kingsley Amis

Tags: education



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Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

Kingsley Amis

Tags: inspiration doing



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SF's NO GOOD!
They bellow 'til we're deaf
But =this= is good
Well, then, it's not SF!

Kingsley Amis

Tags: humor doggerel



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He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in common with him if she only knew him.

Kingsley Amis


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I don't allow people of your sort to stand in my way. That's what you're leaving out of account. I'm having Christine because it's my right. Do you understand that? If I'm after something, I don't care what I do to make sure that I get it. That's the only law I abide by; it's the only was to get things in this world...With me you just haven't a hope in hell.

Kingsley Amis


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