Origine: Da una lettera a Philip Larkin; citato in Martin Amis: vi racconto i miei drammi https://web.archive.org/web/20160101000000/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2000/giugno/07/MARTIN_AMIS_RACCONTO_MIEI_DRAMMI_co_0_0006075899.shtml, Corriere della Sera, 7 giugno 2000.
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“I gatti sono semplicemente umani, anche loro hanno dei difetti.”
Origine: Citato in Aa. Vv., Antica saggezza dei gatti: aforismi felini, Edizioni del Baldo, Colognola ai Colli, 2013, p. 14. ISBN 8867210530
Kingsley Amis: Frasi in inglese
“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
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Lucky Jim
Origine: Lucky Jim
“There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.”
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Lucky Jim
Origine: Lucky Jim (1954)
Ronnie Appleyard's thoughts after his first full sex with Simon (Simona) Quick in Ch. 2, p. 81
I Want It Now (1968)
Origine: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 11, p. 158
“A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.”
Attributed in Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement? (1993) by Giles Gordon, and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth M. Knowles, p. 14
"Phoenix Too Frequent" Critique of D. H. Lawrence
What Became of Jane Austen? And Other Questions (1970)
“Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.”
Origine: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 19, p. 274
“Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.”
"A Bookshop Idyll"
Cf. Lord Byron, Don Juan, "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence."
A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956 (1956)
“There isn't another other sex. (p. 254)”
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Stanley and the Women
Stanley and the Women (1984)
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Take a Girl Like You
Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn in Ch. 27
Take a Girl Like You (1960)
“Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.”
The speaker is Patrick Standish, copyrighting his own witticism.
Origine: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 17, p. 248
"New Approach Needed", about the Second Coming, (p. 27)
A Look Round the Estate: Poems, 1957–1967 (1968)
"Ode to Me", (p. 134)
Collected Poems, 1944-1979 (1979)
“Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.”
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The Old Devils
The Old Devils (1986)
“Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.”
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Take a Girl Like You
Origine: Take a Girl Like You (1960), Ch. 17
Encounter magazine (July 1960) (referring to the proposed expansion of higher education)
