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Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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 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 quotes: You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change. You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change.
Martin Amis quotes: At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.
Martin Amis quotes: Heat, money, sex and fever -this is it, this is New York, this is first class, this is the sharp end. Heat, money, sex and fever -this is it, this is New York, this is first class, this is the sharp end.
Martin Amis quotes: When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
Martin Amis quotes: To remember a day would take a day. To remember a year would take a year. To remember a day would take a day. To remember a year would take a year.
Martin Amis quotes: Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. 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 quotes: We took the simple step of illegalising all opposition. And the autobahn to autocracy lay clear. We took the simple step of illegalising all opposition. And the autobahn to autocracy lay clear.
Martin Amis quotes: Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain. Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain.
Martin Amis quotes: One recalls John Updike's argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be so. 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 quotes: It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language. It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.
Martin Amis quotes: It's hard to make progress with grief. It's hard to make progress with grief.
Martin Amis quotes: One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back. One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts. 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 quotes: And now, at dusk, outside my window, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the strobe lights of nightlife long ago. 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 quotes: Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions. Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
Martin Amis quotes: Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life. Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.
Martin Amis quotes: Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual. Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.
Martin Amis quotes: Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time. Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time.
Martin Amis quotes: Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change. Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
Martin Amis quotes: You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven. You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.
Martin Amis quotes: 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? 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 quotes: I hire tea by the tea bag. I hire tea by the tea bag.
Martin Amis quotes: They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be. They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.
Martin Amis quotes: [On STDs] This be Nature's way of recommending monogamy. [On STDs] This be Nature's way of recommending monogamy.
Martin Amis quotes: And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
Martin Amis quotes: Her body is probably naked by now but there is nothing as naked as human eyes: they haven't even got skin over them. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There in the night their bed had the towelly smell of marriage. There in the night their bed had the towelly smell of marriage.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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 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 quotes: America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere. America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.
Martin Amis quotes: It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was. 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 quotes: Oppression lays down blood-lust. It lays it down like a wine. Oppression lays down blood-lust. It lays it down like a wine.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Love finds me difficult. Love finds me difficult.
Martin Amis quotes: Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after. 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 quotes: Let me give you a lesson on war, Golo. Rule number one: never invade Russia. Let me give you a lesson on war, Golo. Rule number one: never invade Russia.
Martin Amis quotes: Laughter always forgives. Laughter always forgives.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
Martin Amis quotes: When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower. When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.
Martin Amis quotes: You use a different part of your heart with girls. You use a different part of your heart with girls.
Martin Amis quotes: Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move( ... ) Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move( ... )
Martin Amis quotes: He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness. He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.
Martin Amis quotes: Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual. Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
Martin Amis quotes: Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.
Martin Amis quotes: Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.
Martin Amis quotes: Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands. Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.
Martin Amis quotes: When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile. When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.
Martin Amis quotes: 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.) 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 quotes: While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk
Martin Amis quotes: I think I'm losing my bottle. I think I'm going tonto. I think I'm losing my bottle. I think I'm going tonto.
Martin Amis quotes: With the flat smile of the deeply inconvenienced. With the flat smile of the deeply inconvenienced.
Martin Amis quotes: While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability. While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability.
Martin Amis quotes: In bereavement, make yourself better, not bitter. In bereavement, make yourself better, not bitter.
Martin Amis quotes: Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say? Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong. In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
Martin Amis quotes: You couldn't catch a yawn from someone you didn't like. You couldn't catch a yawn from someone you didn't like.
Martin Amis quotes: Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life
Martin Amis quotes: If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are. If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.
Martin Amis quotes: You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star. You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
Martin Amis quotes: In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity. In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity.
Martin Amis quotes: Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time's arrow moves the other way. 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 quotes: So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else. So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.
Martin Amis quotes: The night was electric - The night was in italics. The night was electric - The night was in italics.
Martin Amis quotes: By 12.30, Giles had consumed five gin-rickies, four gin-and-tonics, three gin-and-its, two gin-and-bitters, and one gin. 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 quotes: But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while. But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.
Martin Amis quotes: When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour. When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
Martin Amis quotes: Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything. Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.
Martin Amis quotes: The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves. The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Blood and bodies and death and power. Blood and bodies and death and power.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Are snoopers snooping on their own pain? Probably. Are snoopers snooping on their own pain? Probably.
Martin Amis quotes: Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more. Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: In the Gulag, it was not the case that people died like flies. Rather, flies died like people. In the Gulag, it was not the case that people died like flies. Rather, flies died like people.
Martin Amis quotes: No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
Martin Amis quotes: The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light. The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right. I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.
Martin Amis quotes: The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go. The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go.
Martin Amis quotes: Suffering doesn't concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. Suffering doesn't concern itself with the scale of other sufferings.
Martin Amis quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent. Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
Martin Amis quotes: Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

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