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He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

Ian Mcewan

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
Stories
Young
Impatience
Self
Consciously
Never
Appetite
Experienced
Begin
Story
Felt

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