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Martin Amis

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Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.


— Martin Amis


#love

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.


— Martin Amis


#aging #life #time #age

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.


— Martin Amis


#inspirational #satire #humor

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.


— Martin Amis


#humour #humor

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.


— Martin Amis


#down #grow #lamb #lie #lion

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.


— Martin Amis


#paper #writing #experience

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .


— Martin Amis


#selflessness #love

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.


— Martin Amis


#famines #god #humans #plagues #problem-of-evil

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life


— Martin Amis


#literature #on-fiction #life

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.


— Martin Amis


#change






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Dead Babies (1975) more flippant in tone chronicles a few days in the lives of some friends who convene in a country house to take drugs. " He reports that he is disquieted by what he sees as increasingly undisguised hostility towards Israel and the United States. Other People: A Mystery Story (1981) about a young woman coming out of a coma was a transitional novel in that it was the first of Amis's to show authorial intervention in the narrative voice and highly artificed language in the heroine's descriptions of everyday objects which was said to be influenced by his contemporary Craig Raine's "Martian" school of poetry.

that constant demonstrating of his command of English" and that the "Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop". He has thus been portrayed as the undisputed master of what the New York Times called "the new unpleasantness". Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011.

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