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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
More always means worse.
Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Cats are only human, they have their faults.
Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
Sex stops when you pull up your pants, Love never lets you go.
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.
I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.
Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?
Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.
I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.
Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
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.
Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.
