Kingsley Amis (1922 – 1995)
English novelist, poet, critic, teacher, and father of novelist Martin Amis.
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Be glad you're fifty — and
That you got there while things were nice,
In a world worth looking at twice.
So here's wishing you many more years,
But not all that many. Cheers!
Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
There isn't another other sex.
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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