"if you want to learn to be a luminous and complete bastard, you need to read Mencken and Amis."
"For instance, if you want to learn to be a luminous and complete bastard, you need to read Mencken and Amis." @jamesheathers
Martin Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist. His best-known novels are Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). Amis's work centres on the excesses of late-capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirises through grotesque caricature; he has been portrayed as a master of what The New York Times called "the new unpleasantness".
“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.” ― Martin Amis
“I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips: it is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me.)” ― Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. As a scholar, Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was a detractor of religion, populism and representative democracy, which he believed to be a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress, skeptical of economic theories and critical of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. H. L. Mencken
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. H. L. Mencken
"if you want to learn to be a luminous and complete bastard, you need to read Mencken and Amis."
"For instance, if you want to learn to be a luminous and complete bastard, you need to read Mencken and Amis." @jamesheathers
Martin Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist. His best-known novels are Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). Amis's work centres on the excesses of late-capitalist Western society, whose perceived absurdity he often satirises through grotesque caricature; he has been portrayed as a master of what The New York Times called "the new unpleasantness".
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. As a scholar, Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. As an admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was a detractor of religion, populism and representative democracy, which he believed to be a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress, skeptical of economic theories and critical of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine.