Martin Amis

England
Born on 25 Aug 1949
Writer

Quotes



Rust is the failure of the work of man. The project, the venture, the experiment: failed, given up on, and not cleaned up after.
They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.
When you�ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
When a man conclusively exalts one woman, and one woman only, 'above all others,' you can be pretty sure you are dealing with a misogynist. It frees him up for thinking the rest are shit.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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."
Essays