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If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

Ian Mcewan

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
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Novella
Dies
Happy
Perfect
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That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.
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And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
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He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.
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At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.
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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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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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All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.
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It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
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Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?
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She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.
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She loved him, though not at this particular moment.
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It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
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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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