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Quotes from Success — Martin Amis

1949–2023 England

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7 quotes

The past weaves round all this; we still duck in and out of its lost but shimmering kingdoms.

Success (1978)

I try to like the way the world is changing, but there seems to be no extra room for me inside.

Success (1978)

I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bear to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there’s nothing for you here.

Success (1978)

The night was electric — the night was in italics.

Success (1978)

I think I'm losing my bottle. I think I'm going tonto.

Success (1978)

We kept nearly bumping into each other, unavoidably. I wished we could stop avoiding each other long enough to agree to avoid each other properly.

Success (1978)

My calculations about how to stay alive and sane on this particular planet have clearly been at fault. Lots of people are plenty uglier and poorer than me without seeming to mind, without the self-hate and self-pity – the sentimentality, in a word – that makes me such a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude.

Success (1978)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martin Amis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.