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Quotes from The Biographer's Moustache — Kingsley Amis

1922–1995 England

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It isn't class differences that keep people apart, it's thinking they bloody matter.

The Biographer's Moustache (1995)

[W]e're all trapped in a sort of conspiracy to pretend everybody's forgiven everybody else and nobody minds anything any more and we all know life's not like that but what can we do?

The Biographer's Moustache (1995)

'Do you think that's altogether fair to him, to Jimmie, that is? I realize you've known him longer than I have.'
'Maybe, maybe not. You know, darling, I think you're sometimes a bit carried away by fairness.'

The Biographer's Moustache (1995)

Jimmie had said more than once that the upper class enjoyed the true freedom of not caring what anybody else thought about them. Like children perhaps. If that had a bearing, there might be a connection with the boyishness of such people noted by some outside observers, including Indians under the British Raj and later.

The Biographer's Moustache (1995)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kingsley Amis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.