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Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
Novelist
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Belfast
Ireland
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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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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
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Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.
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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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