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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

— Martin Amis The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)

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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.

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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.

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