"Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions." — Martin Amis

"Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions."

— Martin Amis

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123 Quotes by Martin Amis

Martin Amis has 123 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and…
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an…
When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral…
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're…
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark -…
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going…
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
More will mean worse.
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -… — Richard Armitage
Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist… — Saint Augustine
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect… — Jane Austen
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when… — Joseph Barbera
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught… — Douglas Bader
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more… — Roseanne Barr

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