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I hire tea by the tea bag....

I hire tea by the tea bag.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

More will mean worse....

More will mean worse.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

I am a novelist,...

I am a novelist,

Martin Amis 216 quotes

You cannot combine being a mov...

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

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Very broadly, literature conce...

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Jane was my wicked stepmother:...

Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'

Martin Amis 216 quotes

When I go back to the core of ...

When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Only in art will the lion lie ...

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

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Every 10 years you're a differ...

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.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Novelists are stamina merchant...

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

It's not that you get a clichГ...

It's not that you get a clichГ© and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Let me assure you that the hum...

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Since it is no longer permissi...

Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. A religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Never content just to be, Amer...

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

How incredibly avaricious the ...

How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children.... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?

Martin Amis 216 quotes

The arms race is a race betwee...

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Suicide is what everyone young...

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Someone watches over us when w...

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

Martin Amis 216 quotes

You get the feeling that child...

You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

I would say that the writers I...

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it 'vow-of-poverty prose.' No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.

Martin Amis 216 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....