Martin Amis Quotes About Achievement

Quotes about: Achievement

• It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.

  Martin Amis

  People, Achievement, Arses

• It's tremendously important how you get on with the other sex. Your life record on that is incredibly important. You never really think about any of your other achievements.

  Martin Amis

  Sex, Thinking, Achievement

  "Martin Amis | What I've Learned". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

• Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction -
  this taught empathy. If you read a novel, you're in someone else's head, in three, five different people's heads. Suddenly, the principle of "Don't do anything to anyone that you wouldn't want done to you" becomes real in people's minds. That's a fantastic achievement if fiction is indeed partly responsible for it. That's a great thing to be a part of. In the end, then, I don't know if writers have legislated, but they have civilized.

  Martin Amis

  Real, Achievement, Empathy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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