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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.

Ian Mcewan

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Ian Mcewan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 21
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Film Producer
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Belfast
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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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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
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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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Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
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If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
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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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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
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When anything can happen, everything matters.
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Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.
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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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I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.
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