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It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.

— Martin Amis Fear and loathing (2001)

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In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

All publicity isn't good publicity. As a New York publicist put it: "What: the guy's an asshole so I'll go and buy his novel?"

Experience (2000)

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

Einstein's Monsters (1987)

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