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The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

Ian Mcewan

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
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Notes
Worse
Getting
Everything
Take
World

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I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.
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There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.
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The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.
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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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And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
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Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
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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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He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse.
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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 this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.
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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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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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She loved him, though not at this particular moment.
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When people ask, Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?, I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
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I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
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He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
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