English novelist (1949- )
Doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?
MARTIN AMIS
"The Palace of the End", The Guardian, Mar. 4, 2003
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
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
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.
MARTIN AMIS
Money