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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.

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.
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I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.
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...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.
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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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Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.
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She loved him, though not at this particular moment.
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Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.
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When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.
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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
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Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.
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