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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

Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed. — Kingsley Amis

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. — Kingsley Amis

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. — Kingsley Amis

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

Make time for productivity and creativity instead of useless socialmedia activity! — Lily Amis

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it. — Kingsley Amis

The prayer that is heard is not of many words ... but of Oneness — Vivian Amis

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable — Martin Amis

Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain. — Martin Amis

Two soulmates can never be apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart! — Lily Amis

It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language. — Martin Amis

If you don't go and do something in life, nothing happens. — Suzy Amis

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. — Martin Amis

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back. — Martin Amis

Suicide is a mind-body problem that ends violently and without any winner. I — Martin Amis

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

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

Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions. — Martin Amis

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

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

Believe in yourself, your dreams, wishes, desires and goals, even if others don't. — Lily Amis

Authors need readers and not followers. Authors need review and not Likes! — Lily Amis

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change. — Martin Amis

I flourished because of him. He made me feel alive. I finally understand how love feels alike! — Lily Amis

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU. — Vivian Amis

Novelists don't normally write about what's going on; they write about what's not going on. — Martin Amis

I hire tea by the tea bag. — Martin Amis

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis

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

Every day, the dispensing of existence ... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient. — Martin Amis

America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere. — Martin Amis

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

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows. — Martin Amis

I will always miss the person I
thought U are. But not the selfish,
unkind, insensitive and heartless
person U turned out to be. — Lily Amis

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

Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end. — Martin Amis

The less you know, the more you will be known
The less you want, the more you will have
The less you are, the more you will be — Vivian Amis

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. — Martin Amis

For a moment he felt like devoting the next ten years to working his way to a position as art critic on purpose to review Bertrand's work unfavorably. — Kingsley Amis

Whether they soothe or snarl, cringe or strut, suicide notes do not seek to entertain. I — Martin Amis

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

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong. — Martin Amis

Everything has an ending" that's what he said. But "True love has no ending", that's what I say. — Lily Amis

People who go to the Opera, they don't go to the toilet, not even at home. — Martin Amis

Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent. — Martin Amis

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. — Kingsley Amis

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

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say? — Martin Amis

He tortured, not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction. — Martin Amis

In bereavement, make yourself better, not bitter. — Martin Amis

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability. — Martin Amis

The mind is neither good nor bad, it is the oneness with mind that creates suffering. — Vivian Amis

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility. — Patricia Amis

With the flat smile of the deeply inconvenienced. — Martin Amis

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that is should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree. — Kingsley Amis

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star. — Martin Amis

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. — Kingsley Amis

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. — Martin Amis

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

When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour. — Martin Amis

The night was electric - The night was in italics. — Martin Amis

Erections, as we all know, come to the teenager on a plate. — Martin Amis

Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in? — Kingsley Amis

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose. — Martin Amis

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it. — Martin Amis

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around. — Vivian Amis

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

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while. — Martin Amis

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else. — Martin Amis

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

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

If you don't know the question, you are not ready for the answer. — Vivian Amis

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything. — Martin Amis

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow. — Martin Amis

Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all ... not by force, but by grace. — Vivian Amis

The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they? — Kingsley Amis

Love finds me difficult. — Martin Amis

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong. — Kingsley Amis

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for. — Kingsley Amis

More will mean worse. — Martin Amis

Beware of curiously shaped or oddly-got-up bottles: you are likely to be paying for the parcel rather than what is wrapped up in it. — Kingsley Amis

With all respect to James Bond, a martini should be stirred, not shaken. — Kingsley Amis

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy. — Kingsley Amis

All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation — Vivian Amis

{Victor} was no exception to a rule of Alun's that men over fifty who took care of themselves were not to be trusted. — Kingsley Amis

You couldn't catch a yawn from someone you didn't like. — Martin Amis

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life — Martin Amis

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

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind. — Vivian Amis

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are. — Martin Amis

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another. — Kingsley Amis

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does. — Vivian Amis

I think I'm losing my bottle. I think I'm going tonto. — Martin Amis

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen. — Kingsley Amis

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

In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity. — Martin Amis

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

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