# Success

- Author: [Martin Amis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success

## Quotes

> Mouth-fuck, bum-fuck, fist-fuck, prick-fuck. Ear-fuck, hair-fuck, nose-fuck, toe-fuck. It's all I think about when I'm in my room. Bed-fuck, floor-fuck, desk-fuck, sill-fuck, rug-fuck.
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> And in the streets. Tarmac-fuck, lamppost-fuck, shopfront-fuck. Bike-fuck, car-fuck, bus-fuck. Rampart-fuck, railing-fuck, rubbish-fuck.
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> Pen-fuck, clip-fuck, paper-fuck. (I'm at the office now.) Char-fuck, sec-fuck, temp-fuck. Salessheet-fuck, invoice-fuck, phone-fuck.
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> And everywhere else. Land-fuck, sea-fuck, air-fuck, cloud-fuck, sky-fuck. In all kinds of moods. Hate-fuck, rage-fuck, fun-fuck, sick-fuck, sad-fuck. In all kinds of contexts. Friend-fuck, kid-fuck, niece-fuck, aunt-fuck, gran-fuck, sis-fuck. Fuck-fuck.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success/mouth-fuck-bum-fuck-fist-fuck.md)

> The world is boiling. You hardly dare open a paper these days: the news is all of cataclysm and collapse. Tempers are threadbare; the yobs are winning; everybody accepts the fact that they’ve got to get nastier in order to survive. The world is going bad on us. I’m having nothing to do with it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success/the-world-is-boiling.md)

> I try to like the way the world is changing, but there seems to be no extra room for me inside.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success/i-try-to-like.md)

> I think I'm losing my bottle. I think I'm going tonto.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success/i-think-im-losing.md)

> I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bear to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there’s nothing for you here.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success/i-think-you.md)

> The past weaves round all this; we still duck in and out of its lost but shimmering kingdoms.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success/the-past-weaves.md)

> My calculations about how to stay alive and sane on this particular planet have clearly been at fault. Lots of people are plenty uglier and poorer than me without seeming to mind, without the self-hate and self-pity – the sentimentality, in a word – that makes me such a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success/my-calculations-about.md)

> We kept nearly bumping into each other, unavoidably. I wished we could stop avoiding each other long enough to agree to avoid each other properly.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success/we-kept-nearly.md)

> The night was electric — the night was in italics.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/success/the-night-was.md)