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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sens

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. – Martin Amis

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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it Ive met, and think theyre incredibly witty, inventive – theres a lot of poetry there. – Martin Amis

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Poetry
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Money doesnt mind if we say its evil, it goes from strength to strength. Its a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. – Martin Amis

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strength
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin

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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. – Anon.

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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. – Aristotle

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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? – Socrates

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods – Hannah Arendt

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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. – Sanskrit Proverb

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Calamity is mans true touchstone. – Beaumont and Fletcher

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