"Everyone is right up there at the very……" — Martin Amis
"Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit."
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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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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life…
— Cate Blanchett
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My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing.…
— David O. McKay
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The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
— Oscar Wilde
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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the…
— Sigmund Freud
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It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near…
— Thomas Brooks
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If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than…
— Rajiv Shah
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I love to live on the brink of eternity.
— David Brainerd
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If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not…
— Gemma Galgani
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For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves…
— Thomas Merton
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During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will…
— Henry A. Wallace
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