Martin Amis Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.

  Martin Amis

  Children, Thinking, Impact

• The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty.

  Martin Amis

  Loyalty, Mother, Children

  Martin Amis (1973). “The Rachel papers”, Jonathan Cape

• We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Talking, Age

  2000 Experience.

• Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

  Martin Amis

  Age, Twenties, Novelists

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.315, Vintage

• 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

  Suicide, Thinking, Age

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

• It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

  Martin Amis

  Men, Age, Faces

  "Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions". Book by Martin Amis, 1993.

• September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

  Martin Amis

  Night, September 11, Islam

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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