Best Martin Amis Quotations
- He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. Alarm
- 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
- He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness. Consciousness
- 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. Arrive
- He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. Please
- Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit. Brink
- 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… All
- 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… America
- 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 Always Depends
- Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing… Anything Really
- Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything. Closure
- For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect… All
- The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light. Air
- They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be. Inspirational
- When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour. All
- when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions… Air
- When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable Forgotten
- It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all… All
- Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . . Blind
- 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. Anything Else
- My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. All
- You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m just waiting. Things… Ago
- People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire… Amorous
- Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life Fiction
- 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… All
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