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Martin Amis is a British novelist known for his satirical and darkly humorous writing. His works often explore the moral dilemmas of modern society and the complexities of individual identity. Born on August 25, 1949, Amis is considered an important figure in British literature.

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“Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.”

Faces Existence Ancient Fierce

Book:Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence

Source: Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence

“It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.”

Men Said Age Faces Used Certain Used To Be

Author:Martin Amis

“But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while.”

Faces Enemy Miserable Innocence

Book:Experience

Source: Experience

“September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.”

Age Faces Night Stuff Middle Century Conflict Enlightenment Islam East Nuclear Landscape Indian Middle East September Irrational Arena Medieval September 11 Jihad Bronze Old Stuff Anachronism

Author:Martin Amis

“When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.”

Important Enough Faces Young Courses Audience Very Strong Sinking

Author:Martin Amis

“When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.”

Ideas Faces Millions Gone Cost Determination Argument Incredibles Russia Communism Good Ideas Socialist Utopia Bad Ideas

Author:Martin Amis

“I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)”

Humans Eye Faces Tears Moved Lips Cinema Sentimental Exterior Human Faces Poignancy

Author:Martin Amis

“Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.”

Age Faces Late Twenties Philosopher Novelists Senility Late Twenties

Book:The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

Source: The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

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Born: August 25, 1949
Known for: Novelist
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