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Category: Kingsley Amis

A man’s sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to an animal which is pretending not to be an animal that it is an animal.

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

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

doing, inspiration

If you can’t annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

annoyance, writing

Death has this much to be said for it:You don’t have to get out of bed for it.Wherever you happen to beThey bring it to you—free.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: ‘You atheist?'”Kingsley Amis: ‘Well, yes, but it’s more that I hate him.

atheism, god, misotheism, religion

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

cynicism, history, love, pessimism, truth