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Martin Amis
Age: 75
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Martin Louis Amis
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My 12-year-old daughter said to me, Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud. Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.
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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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In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references, multiple citations.
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Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
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Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.
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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.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.
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It's tremendously important how you get on with the other sex. Your life record on that is incredibly important. You never really think about any of your other achievements.
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It's often said of American politics that it's a huge juggernaut and the president can change the direction by two or three degrees in either direction, but not much more. In fact, I think the president's power is limited, much more than the prime minister in England.
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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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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.
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We all have names we don't know about.
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The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population.
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You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.
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I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
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America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.
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My friendship with the Hitch has always been perfectly cloudless. It is a love whose month is ever May.
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The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
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We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.
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