Maxioms by Kingsley Amis
No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare
No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare
I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so read more
I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven read more
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
