Kingsley Amis Quotes
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.
Kingsley Amis
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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Zendaya
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Nathaniel Philbrick
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Patrick J. Kennedy
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Walter Mosley
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Brian Greene
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Dan Quinn
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James Burrows
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Ezra Taft Benson
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Joan Collins
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.
Kingsley Amis
