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Martin Amis
Age: 75
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Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.
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Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.
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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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No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.
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...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?
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The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
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I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.
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The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.
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Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
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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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It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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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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It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.
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Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
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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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Style is not neutral it gives moral directions.
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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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When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
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