"Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover,……" — Martin Amis
"Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything."
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123 Quotes by Martin Amis
Martin Amis has 123 quotes on this site.
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and…
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an…
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral…
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're…
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark -…
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One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going…
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
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More will mean worse.
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
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We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that…
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I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship.…
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I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.
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I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are…
— Beyonce Knowles
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Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and…
— Dianna Agron
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Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus…
— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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The PURPOSE of the DATA INTEGRITY BOARD review meeting is NOT for the purpose of reviewing the INTEGRITY of the…
— Jack Smith
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I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe…
— Helen Merrill
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Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
— Terence McKenna
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Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached…
— Walter J. Ong
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My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside…
— Richard Rohr
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