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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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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
Author
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Belfast
Ireland
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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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In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.
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But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
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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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Not being boring is quite a challenge.
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The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.
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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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Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.
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These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.
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No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.
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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'm quite good at not writing.
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There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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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 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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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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And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.
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