Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient. Martin Amis More Quotes by Martin Amis More Quotes From Martin Amis Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions. Martin Amis conventions dimensions sight It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks. Martin Amis holiday home writing One thing you can't help noticing in South America and in Latin culture, generally, is how nice people are. Although when I went back to Spain - my mother lived in Spain and both my brothers lived there - after the Uruguay trip, I thought, "Oh great, Hispanic people." But they weren't nearly as nice as the Uruguayans. They're quite proud and pissed off, the Spaniards. Martin Amis brother mother latin There's Chile and there's Uruguay, and no one quite knows why Uruguay is so appealingly selfless because they've had their terror and their revolution like all the rest. But somehow, there's something in them. Martin Amis selfless terror revolution Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road. Martin Amis soulful walks They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be. Martin Amis youth men Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda. Martin Amis hypnosis sorry believe I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right. Martin Amis again-and-again sound writing Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet. Martin Amis writing father thinking I hire tea by the tea bag. Martin Amis money cooking food You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work. Martin Amis tragedy principles people He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles. Martin Amis car artist insanity No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson. Martin Amis bleak down-and house It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language. Martin Amis english-language terrible language For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound. Martin Amis light sound want The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves. Martin Amis nuclear arms race Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life. Martin Amis rest-of-your-life shadow color You use a different part of your heart with girls. Martin Amis girl different heart Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule. Martin Amis funny-things mirrors thinking Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette. Martin Amis cigarette smoking
