Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European. - Kingsley Amis

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In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

Kingsley Amis

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

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The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

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When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

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

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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

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