# Quote — Kingsley Amis, You Can't Do Both

> That stuff you read didn't condition you, you chose it because it was what you wanted to hear.

- Author: [Kingsley Amis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis.md)
- Book: [You Can't Do Both](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/you-cant-do-both.md)
- Page: 304
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis#You_Can't_Do_Both_(1994)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/you-cant-do-both/that-stuff-you

## More from this book

> It had even occurred to him that sticking firmly to one girl could be unethically used to obtain exemption from the sometimes gruelling task of promiscuity.

p. 149 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/you-cant-do-both/it-had-even.md)

> [W]hat's the point of growing a beard if you're not going to be a little bit free and easy?

p. 257 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kingsley-amis/you-cant-do-both/w-hats-the-point.md)