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Martin Amis Quotes

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be Picture Quote #1

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour Picture Quote #1

The future could go this way, that way. The future’s futures have never looked so rocky. Don’t put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It’s the real stuff, the only stuff, it’s all there is, the present, the panting present Picture Quote #1

They’re always looking forward to going places they’re just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven’t yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye Picture Quote #1

Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being Picture Quote #1

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black Picture Quote #1

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Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it’s heavy. Oh it’s hard. It isn’t easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time Picture Quote #1

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don’t just not know what’s funny, they don’t know what’s serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn’t be trusted with anything Picture Quote #1

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There’s no going back Picture Quote #1

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow Picture Quote #1

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn’t matter what creed or colour they are Picture Quote #1

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer Picture Quote #1

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It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for Picture Quote #1

Novelists don’t age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties Picture Quote #1

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I’m in a funk about it, I’ve got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body Picture Quote #1

The literary interview won’t tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview Picture Quote #1

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author Picture Quote #1

Every 10 years you’re a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They’re full of new rewards Picture Quote #1

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Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I’m too afraid to and have to eat it anyway Picture Quote #1

He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles Picture Quote #1

For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect – not just the fantastic degradation, not just the fear and the boredom and all the rest, but also the layered injustice, the silent injustice. So all right. We’re back where we started. To you, nothing – from you, everything. They took it from me, it seems, for no reason, other than that I value it so much Picture Quote #1

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they’re not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street Picture Quote #1

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They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be (Martin Amis Quotes) When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour (Martin Amis Quotes) The future could go this way, that way. The future’s futures have never looked so rocky. Don’t put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It’s the real stuff, the only stuff, it’s all there is, the present, the panting present (Martin Amis Quotes) They’re always looking forward to going places they’re just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven’t yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye (Martin Amis Quotes) Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being (Martin Amis Quotes) Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black (Martin Amis Quotes) Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh it’s heavy. Oh it’s hard. It isn’t easy. Jesus, I never meant me any harm. All I wanted was a good time (Martin Amis Quotes) Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don’t just not know what’s funny, they don’t know what’s serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn’t be trusted with anything (Martin Amis Quotes) One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There’s no going back (Martin Amis Quotes) I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow (Martin Amis Quotes) If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn’t matter what creed or colour they are (Martin Amis Quotes) All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer (Martin Amis Quotes) It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for (Martin Amis Quotes) Novelists don’t age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties (Martin Amis Quotes) Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I’m in a funk about it, I’ve got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body (Martin Amis Quotes) The literary interview won’t tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview (Martin Amis Quotes) When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author (Martin Amis Quotes) Every 10 years you’re a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They’re full of new rewards (Martin Amis Quotes) Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I’m too afraid to and have to eat it anyway (Martin Amis Quotes) He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles (Martin Amis Quotes) For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect – not just the fantastic degradation, not just the fear and the boredom and all the rest, but also the layered injustice, the silent injustice. So all right. We’re back where we started. To you, nothing – from you, everything. They took it from me, it seems, for no reason, other than that I value it so much (Martin Amis Quotes) I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they’re not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street (Martin Amis Quotes)

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