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Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Martin Amis

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Martin Amis
Age: 75
Memoirist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Abertawe
Martin Louis Amis
Formlessness
Redeem
Fiction
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Life

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