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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
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Belfast
Ireland
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Someone once asked me If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you? And I said No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this.
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What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?
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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who had started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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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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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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Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
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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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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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She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.
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She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.
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Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
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There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.
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But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
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Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
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The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
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Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?
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