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The rewards for being sane are not very many but knowing what's funny is one of them.

— Kingsley Amis Stanley and the Women (1984)

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Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.

Difficulties with Girls (1988)

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

The Biographer's Moustache (1995)

Nobody, however learned, however wise, can stand in the way of regress.

The Russian Girl (1992)

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;
Girls aren't like that.

A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956 (1956)

He's taken to going off for hours at a time, wandering round those woods that lead off from the common apparently. Nothing there apart from trees and sexual maniacs.

Girl, 20 (1971)

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