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Say Quotes by Martin Amis
- 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 conspiracy.
- 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 who…
- I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.
- All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently…
- Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
- It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it…
- 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…
- They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they…
- Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?
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