Martin Amis Citas

• Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

  Martin Amis

  Culture, Superficial, Characteristics

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• Cuando el pasado se olvida, el presente es inolvidable

  Martin Amis

  Past, Forgotten, Unforgettable

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Nov 30, 2012

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• Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

  Martin Amis

  Addiction, Culture, Twins

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.43, Vintage

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• People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

  Martin Amis

  Teléfonos, Hablar, Gente

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

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  Alive, Firsts

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• Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.

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  Heart, Body, Talent

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• These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

  Martin Amis

  Pride, Envy, Boredom

  Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

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• People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way.

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  Empleo, Personas, Donaciones

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• My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and ask quickly if anybody’s there.

  Martin Amis

  Thinking, People, Caves

  1984 Money.

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• Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

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  Envy, Balls, Moral

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• Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

  Martin Amis

  Fiction, Way

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• Probablemente la crueldad humana es fija y eterna. Sólo cambian los estilos.

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  Estilo, Fijo, Crueldad

  Martin Amis (1991). “Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence”, Vintage

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• Las armas son como el dinero: nadie sabe lo que es suficiente.

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  Weapons, Enough, Arms Race

  "Einstein's Monsters". Book by Martin Amis, April 30, 1987.

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• Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

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  Book, Years, Different

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• One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

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  Children, Father, Selfishness

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• Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

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  Venus, Littles, Closure

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• Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Teacher, Writing

  1989 London Fields, ch.1.

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• To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Heart, Mind

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.15, Vintage

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• Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.

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  Sueño, Sueño, Noche

  Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House

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• It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.

  Martin Amis

  People, Achievement, Arses

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• ¿Qué tenían en común Nabokov y Joyce, aparte de la mala dentadura y la gran prosa? El exilio y décadas de casi pauperismo. Una tendencia compulsiva a dar demasiadas propinas. Una uxoriedad que sus esposas inspiraban merecidamente. Más que eso, ambos vivieron sus vidas "maravillosamente", no en el sentido jamesiano (donde, además, la solvencia feroz habría sido un requisito previo), sino en la graciosa fortaleza de su perseverancia. Hicieron su trabajo con estilo.

  Martin Amis

  Perseverancia, Esposa, Estilo

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Aug 10, 2016

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

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  Paper, Facts

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• Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

  Martin Amis

  Addiction, Bed, Sometimes

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• El estilo no es algo añadido; es intrínseco a las percepciones y a la forma de ver la vida.

  Martin Amis

  Percepción, Estilo, Manera

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• 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

  Light, Years, Inches

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