Martin Amis

England
Born on 25 Aug 1949
Writer

I used to think there was no time like the present. I used to think there was no time but the present. Now I know better�or different, anyway. In the end, the past will always be there. The past is all there is: the present never sticks around for long enough, and the future is anybody�s guess. In time, you always have to hand it to the past. It always gets you in the end.

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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