Kingsley Amis Quotes

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

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• Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Up
  • Food
  • Claim