"He didn't want to please his readers. He……" — Martin Amis
"He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged."
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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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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all…
— Teresa of Avila
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you…
— Michele Bachmann
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
— Francis Bacon
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Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not…
— Glenn Beck
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products…
— Hans Bender
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I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a…
— Tony Blair
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Please all, and you will please none.
— Aesop
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well…
— Andrea Bocelli
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right,…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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