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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

Ian Mcewan

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
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No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.
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Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.
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Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
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Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.
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And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
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I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.
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I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.
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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
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He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
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Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all deception vanishes.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.
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It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
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