English novelist (1949- )
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.
MARTIN AMIS
"The Voice of the Lonely Crowd", The Guardian, Jun. 1, 2002
Doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?
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"The Palace of the End", The Guardian, Mar. 4, 2003
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.
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Experience
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth ... is that nobody gets over anything.
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House of Meetings
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal.
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Money