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