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Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man, teetering on the roadside; it makes you seek him out with eyes of love.

— Martin Amis London Fields (1989)

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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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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