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Martin Amis has 124 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt…
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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…
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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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…
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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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…
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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.
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
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More will mean worse.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker
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He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
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The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar,…
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I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books.…
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Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier…
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