Kingsley Amis Quotes
Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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We are what we believe we are.
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
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You just said it, the style of the music doesn’t allow anything else.
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Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.
