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Martin Amis
Age: 75
Memoirist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Martin Louis Amis
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Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.
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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's hard to make progress with grief.
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At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution.
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Weapons are like money no one knows the meaning of enough.
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There's Chile and there's Uruguay, and no one quite knows why Uruguay is so appealingly selfless because they've had their terror and their revolution like all the rest. But somehow, there's something in them.
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When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.
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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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It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.
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He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.
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Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there. I don't think these writers are being terse out of choice. I think they are being terse because it's the only way they can write.
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When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time before you can really say you're a writer. You've got to stand the test of time, which is the only real test there is.
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Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.
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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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In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
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Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
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Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
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