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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Ian Mcewan
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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.
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These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.
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The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.
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i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.
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I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
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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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It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.
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Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
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Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
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That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.
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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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She loved him, though not at this particular moment.
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Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
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I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.
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At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
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This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.
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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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There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.
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Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?
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