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Thinking 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…
- 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…
- Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit…
- It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the…
- 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…
- The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard…
- For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect…
- 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…
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