Martin Amis Short Quotes

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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

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The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

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The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

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PC is low, low church — it is the lowest common denomination.

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Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

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Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

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Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.

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Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

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The French, they say, live to eat. The English, on the other hand, eat to die.

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My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

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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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Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

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As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

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He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

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And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

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When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

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When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

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Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

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I know what his poetry will be about. What poetry is always about. The cruelty of the poet's mistress.

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

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Never trust a poet who can drive. Never trust a poet at the wheel. If he can drive, distrust the poems.

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Sex has become much more competitive, with the girls becoming sort of predators as well. It's ferocious.

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In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

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

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They can't ban or burn Larkin's books. What they can embark on is the more genteel process of literary demotion.

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Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

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After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship—marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.

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Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

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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.

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