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Kingsley Amis was English novelist, poet, critic, teacher. Explore interesting quotes on thing.
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“There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”

Kingsley Amis book Lucky Jim

Source: Lucky Jim (1954)

Way

“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.”

Kingsley Amis

"A Bookshop Idyll"
Cf. Lord Byron, Don Juan, "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence."
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956 (1956)

Love , Life , Girl

“Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.”

Kingsley Amis

The speaker is Patrick Standish, copyrighting his own witticism.
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 17, p. 248

“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!”

Kingsley Amis

"Ode to Me", (p. 134)
Collected Poems, 1944-1979 (1979)

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