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Tell Quotes by Martin Amis
- Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One…
- 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…
- The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like…
- when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions…
- 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…
- 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…
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- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
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- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden