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Martin Amis Quotes about Age

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Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

Suicide, Thinking, Age

Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

Men, Age, Faces

"Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions". Book by Martin Amis, 1993.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

Writing, Talking, Age

2000 Experience.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Age, Twenties, Novelists

Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.315, Vintage

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