It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
Kingsley AmisA German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.
Kingsley AmisDoing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
Kingsley AmisIf there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
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