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title: "11 Ifs Quotes By 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/if-you-want-to-know-the-real-meaning-of-pornography-it-is-the-utter/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/you-can-t-sort-of-write-the-novel-as-if-you-re-taking-dictation-from/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/insects-are-what-neurosis-would-sound-like-if-neurosis-could-make-a/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [People look at fame and feel deprived if they haven't got it, feeling that this is a basic, almost a human right,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/people-look-at-fame-and-feel-deprived-if-they-haven-t-got-it-feeling/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/who-would-want-the-socialist-utopia-especially-if-you-were-at-all/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/if-you-feel-you-have-a-strong-constituency-among-the-young-you-can/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-say-if-i-had-a-serious-brain-injury-i-might-well-write-a-children-s/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/seeing-the-world-anew-as-if-it-were-new-is-as-old-as-writing-it-s/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/it-s-interesting-when-you-re-doing-signing-sessions-with-other/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/it-used-to-be-said-not-so-long-ago-that-every-suicide-gave-satan/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-had-my-yob-periods-nothing-violent-but-certainly-loutish-i-think-it/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## More by Martin Amis

> [“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/yeah-i-said-and-started-smoking-another-cigarette-unless-i-inform-you/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/barrios-each-barrio-has-two-or-three-gangs-and-all-the-gangs-are/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-m-not-interested-in-making-a-diagnostic-novel-or-a-concern-i-m-100/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/if-we-all-downed-tools-and-joined-hands-for-ten-minutes-and-stopped/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/when-i-see-a-lot-of-young-faces-in-the-audience-it-s-just-sort-of/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-was-informed-by-my-viscera-that-now-was-the-time-to-put-my-arm/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [You use a different part of your heart with girls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/you-use-a-different-part-of-your-heart-with-girls/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/it-s-becoming-clearer-and-clearer-to-me-that-the-world-is-there-to-be/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/in-her-final-months-princess-diana-was-being-shat-upon-by-the/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/if-you-feel-you-have-a-strong-constituency-among-the-young-you-can/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/my-life-looked-good-on-paper-where-in-fact-almost-all-of-it-was-being/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/i-say-if-i-had-a-serious-brain-injury-i-might-well-write-a-children-s/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/the-future-could-go-this-way-that-way-the-future-s-futures-have-never/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/each-life-is-a-game-of-chess-that-went-to-hell-on-the-seventh-move/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

> [ “There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics \[notably the lower clergy\] for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/there-exists-a-subterranean-world-where-pathological-fantasies/)

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