"Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change."

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Source : Martin Amis (1991). “Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence”, Vintage

Martin Amis

#Style Quotes #Fixed Quotes #Cruelty Quotes

“It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.”

Source : "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 7, 2013.
“There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.”

Source : "Rooney Mara Talks 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Transformation" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. November 10, 2011.
“I had enough brain to live a stupid life.”
“Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.”
“Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.”
“A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.”
“Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.”

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