"To idealize: all writing is a campaign against clichÃ©. Not just clichÃ©s of the pen but clichÃ©s of the mind and clichÃ©s of the heart."

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Source : Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.15, Vintage

Martin Amis

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Mind Quotes

“There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.”
“Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.”
“Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.”
“I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge. It's comforting. And it's reassuring. To be part of something in this world that's constantly changing like baseball, it's awesome to have your hope anchored in something that's so stable.”
“There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.”
“You can't bank on the outcome.”
“I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.”
“The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”

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