"I say, 'If I had a serious brain……" — Martin Amis
"I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable."
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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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The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in…
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There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is…
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The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema,…
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If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to…
— Unknown Author
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Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear…
— Carl Jung
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The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be…
— Pope Pius IX
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The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts…
— Jerry Pournelle
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I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
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If anyone says that the one Jesus Christ who is both true Son of God and true Son of man…
— Pope Vigilius
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In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed.…
— E. M. Forster
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Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a…
— Russell Kirk
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