Quote by Kingsley Amis
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means,

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. – Kingsley Amis

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