Martin Amis Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

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

  Martin Amis

  Culture, Superficial, Characteristics

• Egotism exists everywhere, but it has a different flavor in England, where the tabloid culture goes much deeper. It's just the indulgence of vulgarity, the wallowing in vulgarity. As with everything English, there's a sort of irony to it. They write a great deal about these trivial people who have a certain eminence, always with a bit of, "Isn't it ridiculous that we are writing about this person?"

  Martin Amis

  Writing, People, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Mother, Brother, Latin

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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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