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Famous Martin Amis Quotes
“We all have names we don't know about.”
“He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”
“He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.”
“He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.”
“Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.”
“The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.”
“They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.”
“When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.”
“Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .”
“My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.”
“Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life”
“Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.”
“Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.”
“Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.”
“Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.”
“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.”
“So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.”
“Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?”