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Martin Amis

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Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.


— Martin Amis


#atheism #dignity #irrationality #reason #religion

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.


— Martin Amis


#awe #humanism #reality #religion #religion

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.


— Martin Amis


#don-quixote #literary-criticism #miguel-de-cervantes #literary-criticism

She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food.


— Martin Amis


#observational #food

This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against life.


— Martin Amis


#truth #life

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.


— Martin Amis


#cannot #gun #out #recalled #taken

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.


— Martin Amis


#cannot #combine #movie #movie star #star

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.


— Martin Amis


#knows #like #meaning #meaning of #money

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.


— Martin Amis


#gives #moral #neutral #style

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.


— Martin Amis


#boldly #every #exemplary #his #hopes






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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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