Kingsley Amis Quotes

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

Kingsley Amis

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• His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Night
  • Small
  • Mouth