"Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions."

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Martin Amis

#Giving Quotes #Style Quotes #Moral Quotes

“If you want to get to know me, you have to get off the baseball field. Because when I'm on the field, and in the clubhouse, I'm doing what I'm paid to do, what I love to do, and man, I hate it when I fail.”
“I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.”
“My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.”

Source : "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.
“Jihad is becoming as American as apple pie and as British as afternoon tea.”
“I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.”
“Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.”
“I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?”
“I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk.”

Source : Ramsey Campbell (2011). “The Hungry Moon”, p.468, Samhain Publishing

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