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When anything can happen, everything matters.

Ian Mcewan

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
Matter
Matters
Happen
Happens
Anything
Everything

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I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.
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What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?
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Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.
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Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
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I often don't read reviews.
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I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.
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It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
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But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.
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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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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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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.
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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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Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.
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i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.
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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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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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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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It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
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If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
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