"Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal,……" — Martin Amis
"Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external."
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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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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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I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.
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More Broadly Quotes
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer…
— Sandra Cisneros
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Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way…
— William J. Clinton
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We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs,…
— Kofi Annan
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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through…
— Mark Twain
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of…
— Phillips Brooks
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into…
— Ernst Mayr
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…
— Milton Friedman
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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when…
— Winston Churchill
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Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific and present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not…
— Jan Brewer
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Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists…
— Naomi Oreskes
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So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and…
— Ramachandra Guha
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Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs,…
— Bill O'Reilly
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