“… all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.”

—  Kingsley Amis , book Lucky Jim

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English novelist, poet, critic, teacher 1922–1995

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