“He was short on the one attribute certain to meet the immediate respect of the rich — i. e. being rich — and must therefore obtrude deterrents against being buggered about.”

— Kingsley Amis

Source: I Want It Now (1968), Ch. 2, p. 67

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English novelist, poet, critic, teacher 1922–1995

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