Amis Published

Famous quotes containing the words amis and/or published:

“Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.”
—Kingsley Amis (b. 1922)

“Man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book, but time and like-minded men will find them. Plato had a secret doctrine, had he? What secret can he conceal from the eyes of Bacon? of Montaigne? of Kant? Therefore, Aristotle said of his works, “They are published and not published.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)