Tuesday, 12 June 2012

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////////////////////Pat Shipman recounts in American Scientist, they tended to be associated with the remains of ancestral dogs. This shows first that dog domestication dates back a very long way, to some 45,000 years ago, and that making an alliance with Canis lupus served Homo sapiens very well



//////////////////////Life begins again in your 60s as thoughts of death make people value their time more, Martin Amis has claimed.



/////////////////////Amis said be believed youth ends in a person's mid-40s, followed by a period of melancholy in their 50s.

 However, by a person's 60s, they are beyond the despair of a midlife crisis and begin to appreciate life more, he claimed.



//////////////////////////“Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.”
 ― Martin Amis, Other People



////////////////////////////And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
 ― Martin Amis, London Fields



/////////////////////////////////Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.”
 ― Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note



/////////////////////////////////Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.”
 ― Martin Amis, House of Meetings



//////////////////////////////////When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable”
 ― Martin Amis, Other People




///////////////////////////////////Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go.”
 ― Martin Amis,


/////////////////////////////////////The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.”
 ― Martin Amis



////////////////////////////////What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.”
 ― Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir


////////////////////////////////“We all have names we don't know about.”
 ― Martin Amis



//////////////////////////////////He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.”
 ― Martin Amis



///////////////////////////////He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness.”
 ― Martin Amis



///////////////////////////////////It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.”
 ― Martin Amis



///////////////////////////////Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.”
 ― Martin Amis




////////////////////////////////////Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life”
 ― Martin Amis, Essays



////////////////////////////////Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.
AMIS


//////////////////////////////Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
AMIS


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It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

AMIS ON CAMUS


/////////////////////////////Much more recently I reclassified myself as an agnostic. Atheism, it turns out, is not quite rational either. The sketchiest acquaintance with cosmology will tell you that the universe is not, or is not yet, decipherable by human beings. It will also tell you that the universe is far more bizarre, prodigious and chillingly grand than any doctrine, and that spiritual needs can be met by its contemplation. Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

AMIS


///////////////////////////////"I'm going to the inevitable."
AMIS


////////////////////////////DEFORMITIES AND INFIRMITIES


///////////////////////////////When you were born, you were given an amazing gift, life. You didn't ask for it, but you were happy just to be alive, a long time ago. And then some things happened to you that made you feel extreme anxiety and then you felt sad about what had just happened. And then the same things happened over and over to reinforce those feelings of anxiety and sadness to become your norm. RUFUS


////////////////////////////////////House sales have dropped 40 per cent in the past five years



//////////////////////////////////Children should no work except homework and the minimum age for employment should be increased from 14 to 18, activists said Tuesday, the 11th World Day Against Child Labour. “All forms of child labour except homework should be banned.


//////////////////////////////TBI=Contrary to expectations, children injured in middle childhood demonstrated the poorest outcomes; this age potentially coincides with a critical period of brain and cognitive development.


////////////////////////////////OPTIMISM RULES- BUY SUNGLASSES


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