MARTIN AMIS QUOTES IV

English novelist (1949- )

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

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Experience

Tags: James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov


Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth ... is that nobody gets over anything.

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House of Meetings


On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

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"The Voice of the Lonely Crowd", The Guardian, Jun. 1, 2002

Tags: belief


The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

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Money

Tags: future, present


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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Money

Tags: time