Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
Kingsley AmisWork was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.
Kingsley AmisDeath has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to youโfree.
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.
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