EnglishNovelist, Poet, Critic and Teacher, He created in Lucky Jim, 1954 a comic figure who became a household word in Great Britain in the 1950s. 1922-1995 Popularity:
“One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing . .I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.”
“It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunks of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.”
