Martin Amis Quotes
'Einstein's Monsters,' by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
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Favoritism, elitism, leader-worship, they crept back and cropped out everywhere. But she had never hoped to see them eradicated in her lifetime, in one generation; only Time works the great changes.
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Salutations
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The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.
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Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.
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'Einstein's Monsters,' by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.
