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Famous Martin Amis Quotes
“Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.”
“Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.”
“I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.”
“Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)”
“Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.”
“You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.”
“Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.”
“While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk”
“Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.”
“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.”
“When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.”
“Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.”
“I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.”
“At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.”