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Life Quotes by Martin Amis
- Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse…
- You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there…
- Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess…
- Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)
- 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.
- The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor,…
- Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
- All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.
- Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus…
- Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I…
- Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about…
- The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of…
- My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.
- 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…
- Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life
- Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle