Martin Amis

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• The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

  Einstein’s Monsters (1987), “Introduction: Thinkability”

  • War & Peace

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

  The Observer [London] (30 August 1987)

  • Writing

• Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

  “First Lady on Trial” The Sunday Times [London] (17 March 1996) (Online text in PDF format)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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