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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
- Mind
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
- Moral
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
- Boldly
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
- England
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In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
- He
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If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
- Country
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It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
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It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.
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Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.
- Adult Life
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All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
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