"When the past is forgotten, the present is…" — 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.
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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.

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a… — Don Adams
Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children. — Ezra Taft Benson
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to… — Ezra Taft Benson
With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery. — Paul Berg
Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name. — Milton Berle
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so… — Annie Besant
Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry. — Juliette Binoche
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. — Aesop
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope… — Bono

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