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“Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.”

Source : Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House
“No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.”
“The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?”
“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.”
“My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.”

Source : "'I've always had a sense of the unworthiness of myself'". Interview With Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.
“I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.”
“Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed”
“The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.”

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