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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
Ian Mcewan
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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.
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The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.
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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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Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.
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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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Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
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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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It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.
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Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?
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No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.
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Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?
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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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I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.
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When people have supernatural beliefs I think they should be respected but there is no reason why they need to impose them on others.
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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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