"Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way."

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Source : Kingsley Amis (1992). “Lucky Jim”, Penguin Classics

Kingsley Amis

#Way Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“I am immortal till my work is accomplished”
“Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.”
“It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.”
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
“Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.”
“King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.”
“Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.”

Source : Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”
“I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.”

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