one damn thing

"Life is dead. Isn't that peculiar? It lies there inert and turgid, because it's not... You know, what the novelist does is inject symmetries and epiphanies and bestiaries and unities above all, and streamlines reality, so that it tells, you know, so that it can be told, in an enjoyable way, a stimulating way. But life is just one damn thing after another."

Martin Amis in an interview with Mark Lawson on the BBC 2010

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