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Vor 2 Tagen · As I wrote in The Last Landlady, Patrick Hamilton was the great poet of the pub (along with Kingsley Amis), and perhaps the greatest of all writers about drink. This is not just because he knew of what he wrote, although my goodness he did (he was dead from the stuff at fifty-eight). It is because of the
Vor 7 Stunden · Bob’s favourite wine quotes. Jun 04, 2024 Bob Campbell MW in Wine News. Kingsley Amis had many wine and drinks quotes. Bloomsbury Books. I recently bought an ancient copy of Quaffing Quotes and Wine Facts, published by The Watermark Press. Here are a few of my favourites: Kingsley Amis wrote in The Spectator in 1951: “It rained most of the ...
Vor einem Tag · – Kingsley Amis * “If I didn’t have writing, I’d be running down the street hurling grenades in people’s faces.” – Paul Fussell. AS’s list reminded me of another quote by Mencken that I like and wholeheartedly subscribe to ...
Vor 4 Tagen · This mechanism led Kingsley Amis to conclude that the only way to restore the status to the arts was to remove all funding. Quoting Roy Ruller, he wrote in An Arts Policy that, “the bestowal of money for the arts inevitably attracts the idle, the dotty, the minimally talented, the self-promoters.”
Vor 4 Tagen · Literature of the decade often reflected the conflicts between old and new values, with writers like Kingsley Amis and John Osborne critiquing the status quo. Fashion. Fashion in the 1950s was dominated by the figures such as Christian Dior with the “New Look” silhouette introduced in the late 1940s. In Britain, the austerity of the war ...
Vor 3 Tagen · One very funny and insightful observation that I had always recalled (and sometimes paraphrased to others) I had in fact misattributed to Kingsley Amis - "It didn't matter if you made a fool of yourself in front of strangers - he saw that now. It probably didn't matter much if you did it in front of your friends. The shameful thing was doing it ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Contributors to the magazine have included, among many others, Diana Athill, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Beryl Bainbridge, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Hilary Mantel, John Mortimer, Malcolm Bradbury, A S Byatt, Paul Johnson, David Starkey, John Gray, Robert Harris, Nick Hornby, Richard Ingrams, Joseph O’Neill, Lynn Barber, Derek Mahon, Oleg ...
