Wouldn't we all
“What I want is a chance to decide, from personal experience, that a life of cocktail parties, cars, weekending at rich houses, wine, night-clubs and jazz won’t bring happiness. I want to prove that money isn’t everything, to learn that pleasure cloys.”
Kingsley Amis in 1954, quoted in this review of Zachary Leader’s “thumping great breeze-block of a biography”.
posted by Stephen Stratford at 4:48 PM
2 Comments:
Actually I have always found that 'a life of cocktail parties, cars, weekending at rich houses, wine, night-clubs and jazz' does bring happiness. Bucketfuls of the stuff.
Well, most of that list. Not jazz, necessarily.
Ditto. The jazz is irrelevant.
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