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I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow. -- Martin Amis
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I want to convey a mood, and what you are reading is a constituent of how you feel. In biographies they should always tell us that, routinely, in the margin: what they were reading. What -- Martin Amis
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. -- Martin Amis
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Suicide is a mind-body problem that ends violently and without any winner. I -- Martin Amis
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You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that? -- Martin Amis
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He thought, Yeah. Yeah, non-smokers live seven years longer. Which seven will be subtracted by the god called Time? It won't be that convulsive, heart-bursting spell between twenty-eight and thirty-five. No. It'll be that really cool bit between eighty-six and ninety-three. -- Martin Amis
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Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette. -- Martin Amis
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You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. -- Martin Amis
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Although he liked nearly everything else about himself, Keith hated his redeeming features. In his view they constituted his only major shortcoming -his one tragic flaw. -- Martin Amis
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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block. -- Martin Amis
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Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world. -- Martin Amis
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They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye. -- Martin Amis
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By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin. -- Martin Amis
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Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and myself will never divorce. It's uneconomic and, at my age, usually unnecessary. -- Martin Amis
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Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. The note: 'No hard feelings, everyone, but I've thought about it and it's just not on, is it? It's nearly on, but not quite. No? Anyway, all the best, C. -- Martin Amis
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Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. -- Martin Amis
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These days he smoked and drank largely to solace himself for what drinking and smoking had done to him, so he drank and smoked a lot. He experimented, furthermore, with pretty well any other drug he could get his hands on, -- Martin Amis
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. -- Martin Amis
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Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.' -- Martin Amis
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How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children ... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get? -- Martin Amis
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I think I'm losing my bottle. I think I'm going tonto. -- Martin Amis
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I hire tea by the tea bag. -- Martin Amis
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Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing. -- Martin Amis
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When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak. -- Martin Amis
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Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway. -- Martin Amis
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Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find. -- Martin Amis
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. -- Martin Amis
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When you're in love and trying to make someone love you back, you can hear the texture of your own footfalls, the whistling passage of your breath. Invisible eyes monitor you constantly: even at night something presides over the shape of your sleep. Every thought carries a tick or a cross. -- Martin Amis
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All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say. -- Martin Amis
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Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief. -- Martin Amis
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You use a different part of your heart with girls. -- Martin Amis
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We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur. -- Martin Amis
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In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity. -- Martin Amis
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Well, my father [Kingsley Amis] was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet. -- Martin Amis
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On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational
to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of. -- Martin Amis
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My theory is - we don't really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and quickly as if anybody's there. -- Martin Amis
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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. -- Martin Amis
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.' -- Martin Amis
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He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles. -- Martin Amis
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You can't be up the reader's ass, as many a writer I think is - cute as hell, ingratiating as hell. But that's not loving the reader in the right way. That's toadying to the reader. -- Martin Amis
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I wouldn't have minded a rather more detailed conclusion (to Pride and Prejudice) - say, a twenty-page sex scene featuring the two principals, with Mr. Darcy, furthermore, acquitting himself uncommonly well. -- Martin Amis
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But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while. -- Martin Amis
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So this was all you got:the zooty sideburns and masturbator's pallor of an old Ted in a black suit and the secular obsequies. -- Martin Amis
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There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street. -- Martin Amis
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Doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions? -- Martin Amis
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. -- Martin Amis
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Twenty-two poems covered the period from Lev's first serious efforts to his arrest in 1948 at the age of nineteen. Very Mandelstamian, I adjudged: well-made, and studiously conversational, and coming close, here and there, to the images that really hurt and connect. -- Martin Amis
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Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. -- Martin Amis
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Pain is nature's way of telling us that something is wrong. Patiently, pain goes on telling us this, long after we've got the message. -- Martin Amis
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Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual. -- Martin Amis
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Of all the forces, love is the strongest ... Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man under the weight of a feather. Or it just lets everything go on as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. That's the kind of force love is. -- Martin Amis
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Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda. -- Martin Amis
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What could never be endured, it turned out, was the last swathe of time before sleep came, the path from larger day to huger night, a little death when the mind was still alive and fluttering. Thus -- Martin Amis
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Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there. I don't think these writers are being terse out of choice. I think they are being terse because it's the only way they can write. -- Martin Amis
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Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers. -- Martin Amis
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I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me. -- Martin Amis
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Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end. -- Martin Amis
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You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work. -- Martin Amis
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I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street. -- Martin Amis
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... I was soon wondering if I would ever again be able to attend a mass assemblage without my mind starting to play tricks on me. It wasn't like the last occasion, when I became gradually immersed in the logistical challenge of gassing the audience. No. -- Martin Amis
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I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like it a lot, but the appeal is not that broad. -- Martin Amis
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Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. -- Martin Amis
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What would you rather?" yelled Sybil from the distant sandpit. "Know everything or know nothing?"
"Know nothing," I yelled back. "Then you have the fun of finding everything out. -- Martin Amis
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The militant Utopian, the perfectibilizer, from the outset, is in a malevolent rage at the obvious fact of human imperfectibility. -- Martin Amis
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At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. -- Martin Amis
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America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short. -- Martin Amis
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It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford. -- Martin Amis
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As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like my kind of town. (I saw myself as an idealistic young corporal in the Thought Police.) -- Martin Amis
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Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move( ... ) -- Martin Amis
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I have always derived great comfort from William Shakespeare. After a depressing visit to the mirror or an unkind word from a girlfriend or an incredulous stare in the street, I say to myself: 'Well. Shakespeare looked like shit.' It works wonders. -- Martin Amis
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Who let the dogs in? ... This, we fear, is going to be the question. Who let the dogs in? Who let the dogs in? Who? Who? -- Martin Amis
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At the age of twenty, his artistic dreams frustrated, Hitler was a tramp: park benches, soup queues. Given just a little more talent, perhaps, he would have killed himself, not in the bunker, but in a cosy little studio in Klagenfurt. -- Martin Amis
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One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back. -- Martin Amis
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... Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight at you; you have no conversation with a popular novel. Whereas you do have a conversation (you have an intense argument) with [literary fiction]. -- Martin Amis
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Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows. -- Martin Amis
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I don't think I've ever been particularly scared of death - but scared of dying, the process. It doesn't seem to be a good way of doing it. -- Martin Amis
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Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more. -- Martin Amis
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Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time's arrow moves the other way. -- Martin Amis
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It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language. -- Martin Amis
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I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else. -- Martin Amis
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Like most people, I feel ambiguous guilt for my inferiors, ambiguous envy for my superiors, and mandatory low-spirits about the system itself. -- Martin Amis
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They claim there's a rationale for the children, don't they, sir?"
"Yes. Those babes in arms will grow up and want revenge on the Nazis in about 1963. I suppose the rationale for the women under forty-five is that they might be pregnant. And the rationale for the older women is while we're at it. -- Martin Amis
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There have been rich meat and bloody wine. There have been brandies, and thick puddings. There has already been some dirty talk. Selina is in high spirits, and as for me, I'm a gurgling wizard of calorific excess. -- Martin Amis
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When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author. -- Martin Amis
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Suicide is the night train, speeding your way to darkness. -- Martin Amis
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So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else. -- Martin Amis
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In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references, multiple citations. -- Martin Amis
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When I opened the door to her I felt like a child who believes itself lost on a swarming street and suddenly sees that all-solving outline, that indispensable displacement of air. -- Martin Amis
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The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview. -- Martin Amis
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Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after. -- Martin Amis
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Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, with illustrations by A. Hitler. -- Martin Amis
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The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else. -- Martin Amis
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My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it. -- Martin Amis
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Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything. -- Martin Amis
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To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. -- Martin Amis
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The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at the bus stop.) -- Martin Amis
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As I now see it, America had no business involving itself in a series of distant convulsions where the ideas, variously interpreted, of a long-dead German economist were bringing biblical calamity to China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. -- Martin Amis
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Suffering doesn't concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. -- Martin Amis
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I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write. -- Martin Amis
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Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God. -- Martin Amis
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Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain. -- Martin Amis
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In my world, reserved Italians, heterosexual hairdressers, clouds without silver linings, ignoble savages, hard-hearted whores, advantageous ill-winds, sober Irishmen, and so on, are not permitted to exist. -- Martin Amis
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Making lots of money
it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback -- Martin Amis
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The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head. -- Martin Amis
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Blood and bodies and death and power. -- Martin Amis
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When a man conclusively exalts one woman, and one woman only, "above all others," you can be pretty sure you are dealing with a misogynist. It frees him up for thinking the rest are shit. -- Martin Amis
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Lizzyboo digs me, which is just as well, because if she wants to find the way to my heart she's going to need a fucking shovel. She's going to need to dig up London Fields. -- Martin Amis
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The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was about whether Bolshevik Russia was better than America. -- Martin Amis
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My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. -- Martin Amis
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The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go. -- Martin Amis
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Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. -- Martin Amis
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It is straightforward - and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion. -- Martin Amis
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In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong. -- Martin Amis
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When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that. -- Martin Amis
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. -- Martin Amis
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All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction. -- Martin Amis
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So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already? -- Martin Amis
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When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time before you can really say you're a writer. You've got to stand the test of time, which is the only real test there is. -- Martin Amis
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Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom. -- Martin Amis
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Nazism did not destroy civil society. Bolshevism did destroy civil society. This is one of the reasons for the "miracle" of German recovery, and for the continuation of Russian vulnerability and failure. Stalin did not destroy civil society. Lenin destroyed civil society. -- Martin Amis
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How do you think the world popped into existence? - I'd say wee we are at least five Albert Einsteins away from answering this question. -- Martin Amis
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The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present. -- Martin Amis
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Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief. -- Martin Amis
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Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside ... -- Martin Amis
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It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead. -- Martin Amis
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I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful. -- Martin Amis
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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. -- Martin Amis
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Is that why the parents of dead children spend half the rest of their lives in darkened rooms? Are they hoping the ghosts will return with all their original power? She -- Martin Amis
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The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life. -- Martin Amis
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The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world. -- Martin Amis
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And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. -- Martin Amis
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What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something real happens (something unified, dramatic and pretty saleable), and they just write it down? -- Martin Amis
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Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body. -- Martin Amis
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Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. -- Martin Amis
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My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it. -- Martin Amis
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Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose. -- Martin Amis
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There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack. You don't feel that there's a great reservoir of resentment in the press as you do in England. -- Martin Amis
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I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right. -- Martin Amis
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People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts. -- Martin Amis
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While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability. -- Martin Amis
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So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine right across the universe - it was me. Always me. It was me. It was me. -- Martin Amis
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Every day, the dispensing of existence ... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient. -- Martin Amis
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Whereas I would argue that style is morality: morality detailed, configured, intensified. It's not in the mere narrative arrangement of good and bad that morality makes itself felt. It can be there in every sentence -- Martin Amis
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Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being. -- Martin Amis
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I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here. No one will protect you, and people won't see any reason not to do you harm. -- Martin Amis
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It's a common slander of the Jews, but it's no slander of a huge fraction of the Germans. They went like sheep to the slaughterhouse. And then they donned the rubber aprons and set to work. -- Martin Amis
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He tortured, not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction. -- Martin Amis
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Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all. -- Martin Amis
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The ad world used to be something of a refuge for literary types. But I feared for myself at J.W.T. It seemed to be entirely peopled by blocked dramatists, likeably shambling poets, and one-off novelists. The whole place felt like a clubworld sunset home for literary talent. -- Martin Amis
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You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks. -- Martin Amis
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If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are. -- Martin Amis
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. -- Martin Amis
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I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes. -- Martin Amis
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Consider the Jewish joke, with the old lady running distractedly along the seashore: Help! My son the doctor is drowning. Amusing, I suppose. Her pride, I suppose, is amusing: it is greater than her love. -- Martin Amis
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I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike. -- Martin Amis
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In general, writers never find out how strong their talent is: that investigation begins with their obituaries. In the USSR, writers found out how good they were when they were still alive. If the talent was strong, only luck or silence could save them. -- Martin Amis
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards. -- Martin Amis
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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. I'm not the station, I'm not the stop: I'm the train. I'm the train. -- Martin Amis
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Heat, money, sex and fever -this is it, this is New York, this is first class, this is the sharp end. -- Martin Amis
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Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual. -- Martin Amis
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All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.' -- Martin Amis
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He could take one look at me- at the ashtray, the bottle, the four pots of coffee, my face, and my gut set like a stone on the white band of the towel- he could take one look at me and be pretty sure i ran on heavy fuel. -- Martin Amis
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You shun your spirit,' he murmured, 'every time you agree to sell your days to the city, to measure out your life at the city's pace. -- Martin Amis
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The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves. -- Martin Amis
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. -- Martin Amis
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I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel. -- Martin Amis
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It's tremendously important how you get on with the other sex. Your life record on that is incredibly important. You never really think about any of your other achievements. -- Martin Amis
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If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid value judgment is whether you're going to last, and that tells you that you are, for a bit at least. -- Martin Amis
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One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so. -- Martin Amis
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Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time. -- Martin Amis
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The night was electric - The night was in italics. -- Martin Amis
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I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't. -- Martin Amis
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[On STDs] This be Nature's way of recommending monogamy. -- Martin Amis
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It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for. -- Martin Amis
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If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from the sexual arena. -- Martin Amis
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You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change. -- Martin Amis
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After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship
marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest. -- Martin Amis
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Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time. -- Martin Amis
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Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. -- Martin Amis
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Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything. -- Martin Amis
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It's possible to be flippant here, when Jihadists fly aircraft into buildings they shout God is Great, what do atheists shout when they do it? -- Martin Amis
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Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on. -- Martin Amis
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My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it. -- Martin Amis
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This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling. -- Martin Amis
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The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a lot out of me. Scratching my hair, with soft whistles, with lips aquiver, I frown over Sunset at Blandings. -- Martin Amis
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Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. -- Martin Amis
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Let me give you a lesson on war, Golo. Rule number one: never invade Russia. -- Martin Amis
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People who go to the Opera, they don't go to the toilet, not even at home. -- Martin Amis
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All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer. -- Martin Amis
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For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound. -- Martin Amis
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Today, in the West, there are no good excuses for religious belief - unless we think that ignorance, reaction, and sentimentality are good excuses. -- Martin Amis
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Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions. -- Martin Amis
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You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal -- Martin Amis
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On dope he sometimes thought that all the televisions on Calchalk Street were softly cackling about Richard Tull: news flashes about his most recent failures, panel discussions about his obscurity, his neglect. -- Martin Amis
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Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. -- Martin Amis
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... This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer. -- Martin Amis
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It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way. -- Martin Amis
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No longer can I bear with the ruined god, betrayed and beaten by his own magic. Calling on powers best left unsummoned, he took human beings apart - and then he put them back together again. -- Martin Amis
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Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life -- Martin Amis
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When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour. -- Martin Amis
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In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. -- Martin Amis
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He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. -- Martin Amis
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The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating. -- Martin Amis
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And now, at dusk, outside my window, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the strobe lights of nightlife long ago. -- Martin Amis
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She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food. -- Martin Amis
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Richard didn't mind Gwyn being rich ... Having always been poor was good preparation for being rich. Better than having always been rich ... The well and all its sweet water would surely one day run dry. -- Martin Amis
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Nearly every night there were screenings in the private projection rooms in the Kremlin or the various dachas. Khrushchev says that Stalin was particularly keen on Westerns: 'He used to curse them and give them proper ideological evaluation, but then immediately order new ones. -- Martin Amis
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Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life. -- Martin Amis
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Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands. -- Martin Amis
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Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores. -- Martin Amis
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I've got two backs, me - and I'm glad! Tits can be ... mwa, I know, but they're always in the bloody road. Even in bed. -- Martin Amis
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Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover.
Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it's heavy. Oh it's hard. It isn't easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time. -- Martin Amis
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Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. -- Martin Amis
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It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle. -- Martin Amis
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These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. -- Martin Amis
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No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson. -- Martin Amis
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When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia. -- Martin Amis
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Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit. -- Martin Amis
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Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say? -- Martin Amis
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Her body is probably naked by now but there is nothing as naked as human eyes: they haven't even got skin over them. -- Martin Amis
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Erections, as we all know, come to the teenager on a plate. -- Martin Amis
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When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure. -- Martin Amis
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There in the night their bed had the towelly smell of marriage. -- Martin Amis
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In bereavement, make yourself better, not bitter. -- Martin Amis
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Novelists don't normally write about what's going on; they write about what's not going on. -- Martin Amis
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My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May, -- Martin Amis
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Beauty, extreme yet ambiguously available; this very roughly, was what Nicola's entrance to the Black Cross had said to Keith. But he didn't know the nature
he didn't know the brand
of the availability. -- Martin Amis
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The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own. -- Martin Amis
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Has it ever happened to you ... ? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life. -- Martin Amis
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Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline. -- Martin Amis
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He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness. -- Martin Amis
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When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile. -- Martin Amis
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Give the reader hell. Stretch the reader. -- Martin Amis
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How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist's couch or even the lovers' bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the wall. -- Martin Amis
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One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of a superpower, to maintain democratically the means of planetary extinction. I wonder how this contributes to the dreamlife of America, a dreamlife that is so deep and troubled. -- Martin Amis
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We all have names we don't know about. -- Martin Amis
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After many ponderous experiments the first crematorium was opened in December 1920 in Petrograd. It could manage barely 120 bodies a month, and, in February 1921, cremated itself when the wooden roof caught fire. -- Martin Amis
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The hot macadam pulled on his shoes, like desire ... -- Martin Amis
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Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is ... to impress your personality on the road. -- Martin Amis
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What was Richard? He was a revenger, in what was probably intended to be a comedy. -- Martin Amis
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. -- Martin Amis
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It's hard to make progress with grief. -- Martin Amis
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They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be. -- Martin Amis
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. -- Martin Amis
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Once, as he inhaled with his customary vehemence, I had a thought that made my armpits come alive. -- Martin Amis
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Love finds me difficult. -- Martin Amis
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How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start making sense? Yet the answer is out there. It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground. -- Martin Amis
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America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere. -- Martin Amis
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Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change. -- Martin Amis
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You couldn't catch a yawn from someone you didn't like. -- Martin Amis
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Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road. -- Martin Amis
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Whether they soothe or snarl, cringe or strut, suicide notes do not seek to entertain. I -- Martin Amis
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Maybe love will be like driving. When people move - when they travel - they look where they've come from, not where they're going. -- Martin Amis
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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. -- Martin Amis
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Are snoopers snooping on their own pain? Probably. -- Martin Amis
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He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. -- Martin Amis
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You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star. -- Martin Amis
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Einstein's Monsters, by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now. -- Martin Amis
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It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way. -- Martin Amis
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We took the simple step of illegalising all opposition. And the autobahn to autocracy lay clear. -- Martin Amis
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Oppression lays down blood-lust. It lays it down like a wine. -- Martin Amis
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The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light. -- Martin Amis
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Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are. -- Martin Amis
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The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves. -- Martin Amis
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I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be. -- Martin Amis
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It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth. -- Martin Amis
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More will mean worse. -- Martin Amis
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With the flat smile of the deeply inconvenienced. -- Martin Amis
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise. -- Martin Amis
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When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower. -- Martin Amis
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To remember a day would take a day. To remember a year would take a year. -- Martin Amis
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Since Henry Miller's Tropic books, of course, it has become difficult to talk sensibly about girls' c*nts. -- Martin Amis
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America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was. -- Martin Amis
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If you can fight, you don't have to fight. And you don't have to cower. And girls like that, whatever they say. -- Martin Amis
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Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent. -- Martin Amis
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Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time. -- Martin Amis
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In the Gulag, it was not the case that people died like flies. Rather, flies died like people. -- Martin Amis
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Q: What's the difference between a Communist car and a Communist proselytizer? A: You can close the door on a Communist proselytizer. -- Martin Amis
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Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. -- Martin Amis
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Beneath the clock was an enormous arrow, on which was printed: Change Here For Eastern Trains. But time had no arrow, not here. -- Martin Amis
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Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money. -- Martin Amis
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Laughter always forgives. -- Martin Amis
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Mary wanted to get out of here and on to another plane of life; but these words weren't going to help her out. They had been put together with only one thing in mind: to lock her in. -- Martin Amis
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When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable -- Martin Amis
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And I still surfed on Manhattan static. -- Martin Amis
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This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against life. -- Martin Amis
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I've got to get this stuff out of my system. No, more than that, much more. I've got to get my system out of my system. That's what I've got to do. -- Martin Amis
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[Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation. -- Martin Amis
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While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk -- Martin Amis
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Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy 'Money' very quickly, and then I relaxed. -- Martin Amis
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. -- Martin Amis
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Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded. -- Martin Amis
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Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting. -- Martin Amis