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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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Women are really much nicer than men:
No wonder we like them.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
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There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
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It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
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A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
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Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.
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If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing.
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The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
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Any man in the company of two woman is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
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No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare.
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Alun's life was coming to consist more and more exclusively of being told at dictation speed what he knew.
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It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
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I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own... fault. You know where it is.
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If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
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A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
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Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
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The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
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His writing is sharp, lucid and logical, embodying imagination in the true sense of the word: common sense with wings.
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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.
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
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Should poets bicycle-pump the human heart
Or squash it flat?
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
Kingsley Amis
Born:
April 16, 1922
Died:
October 22, 1995
(aged 73)
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