"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."

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Source : Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Kingsley Amis

#Firsts Quotes #Faults Quotes

“I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.”
“I've made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the same thing with online exposure. You have to be able to make the choices that can make you happy or it will make you crazy.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.213, Simon and Schuster
“With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There are so many artists that have been passed by - even though, on paper, they're the most incredibly talented artists, they don't have the social skills to take it outside of the bedroom.”
“This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.”
“The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.”
“If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”

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