"He awoke at six, as usual. He needed……" — Martin Amis
"He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed."
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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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More Alarm Quotes
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably…
— Sophia Bush
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be…
— James Madison
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling…
— Byron Katie
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That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's…
— Byron Katie
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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst,…
— F B Meyer
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Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm.…
— Rita Rudner
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I…
— Alexander Fleming
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I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
— Ray Bradbury
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