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Out Quotes by Martin Amis
- 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…
- Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
- My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and…
- I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to…
- Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
- The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a lot out of…
- Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing…
- 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…
- The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since…
- Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world…
- Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
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