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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
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Film Producer
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Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.
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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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Someone once asked me If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you? And I said No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this.
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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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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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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
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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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What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?
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Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
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It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
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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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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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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
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Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.
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I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.
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The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.
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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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He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
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