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Martin Amis

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Men whose manners show newscaster interference, soap stains, film smears. Or the cretinized, those who talk on buses...as if TV were real.

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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power

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The difference between terror and horror has been nicely described. The first stage is angst, then comes concern, then anxiety, then fear...

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...then terror, then horror. When you're on a sleigh going through the steppes of Russia and you hear a wolf howl, that's fear...

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Never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion

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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 doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

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All ideologies are bad. They all contain violence because any complete belief system is going to involve you in an illusion...

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...and that can't be defended with the mind alone. There's an emotional or even glandular component involved in an ideology which must...