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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Kingsley Amis
Born: April 16, 1922
Died: October 22, 1995 (aged 73)
Bio: Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism.
Known for:
- Lucky Jim (1954)
- The Old Devils (1986)
- The Alteration (1976)
- One Fat Englishman (1963)
- Take a Girl Like You (1960)
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