Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'
"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
Tag: god religion atheism misotheism
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 AmisThere was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable.
Kingsley AmisTag: excuse
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 AmisIt is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Kingsley Amiseducation is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
Kingsley AmisTag: education
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 AmisTag: inspiration doing
SF's NO GOOD!
They bellow 'til we're deaf
But =this= is good
Well, then, it's not SF!
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 AmisI 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.
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