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When anything can happen, everything matters.

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

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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who had started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
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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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But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
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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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At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
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He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
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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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Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
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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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You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
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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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Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?
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But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.
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I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.
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None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.
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She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.
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Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
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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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