Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline. - Martin Amis
Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.
- Martin Amis
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. - Martin Amis
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. - Martin Amis
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. - Martin Amis
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent. - Martin Amis
Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything. - Martin Amis
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.
Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change. - Martin Amis
Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable - Martin Amis
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the… - Martin Amis
My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the…
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