"If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is."

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Source : Kingsley Amis (1978). “Jake's Thing”, Hutchinson Radius

Kingsley Amis

#War Quotes #Gone Quotes #Youth Quotes

“I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.”
“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.”
“It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.”
“My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?'”
“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.”
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !”
“More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.”
“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”

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