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Martin Amis strength

Martin Amis | strength

Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

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Martin Amis religion

Martin Amis | religion

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

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Martin Amis poetry

Martin Amis | poetry

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it’s not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I’ve met, and think they’re incredibly witty, inventive – there’s a lot of poetry there.

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funny Martin Amis

Martin Amis | funny

Everything seems fine until you’re about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, ‘While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it’s a funny thing, but I’m an exception to that rule.’

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freedom Martin Amis

Martin Amis | freedom

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children’s book. I say, ‘If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children’s book’, but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you’re directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

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Martin Amis The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11

Quote from Martin Amis, The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

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London Fields Martin Amis

Quote from Martin Amis, London Fields

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

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