"The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree."

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Source : Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Kingsley Amis

#Requirements Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.”
“I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.”
“If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.”
“I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.”
“When you canâ€™t change the direction of the wind â€” adjust your sails”
“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.”
“TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.”

Source : "Jenny Holzer’s Hilarious Mom Tweets", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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