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Author: Martin Amis
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Martin Amis _ Money
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal
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Martin Amis _ The Second Plane: 14 Responses
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. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go.
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Martin Amis _ Money
I gestured at my litre of fizzy red wine. "Want a drop of this?" I asked him.No thanks. I try not to drink at lunchtime."So do I. But I never quite make it."I feel like shit all day if I drink at lunchtime."Me too. But I feel like shit all lunchtime if I don't."Yes, well it all comes down to choices, doesn't it?" he said. "It's the same in the evenings. Do you want to feel good at night or do you want to feel good in the morning? It's the same with life. Do you want to feel good young or do you want to feel good old? One or the other, not both."Isn't it a tragedy?
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Martin Amis _ Experience: A Memoir
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense {where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite}, but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.
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Martin Amis _ Time's Arrow
It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.
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Martin Amis _ The Information
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.
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Martin Amis _ House of Meetings
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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Martin Amis _ Money: A Suicide Note
Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.
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Martin Amis _ Other People
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
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Martin Amis _ Other People
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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Martin Amis _ London Fields
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
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Martin Amis _ The Second Plane: 14 Responses
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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