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Ian McEwan quotes: No one knew about the squirrel's skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know. No one knew about the squirrel's skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.
Ian McEwan quotes: But the lovers are locked in, as only lovers can be. But the lovers are locked in, as only lovers can be.
Ian McEwan quotes: Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.
Ian McEwan quotes: Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties. Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.
Ian McEwan quotes: Or he was simply pretending - like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before. Or he was simply pretending - like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.
Ian McEwan quotes: Regarding yourself as a highly rational and compassionate being does not make you rational and compassionate in all circumstances. Regarding yourself as a highly rational and compassionate being does not make you rational and compassionate in all circumstances.
Ian McEwan quotes: I don't really believe in evil at all. I don't really believe in evil at all.
Ian McEwan quotes: You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
Ian McEwan quotes: Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach. Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
Ian McEwan quotes: And roads, new roads probing endlessly, shamelessly, as though all that mattered was to be elsewhere. And roads, new roads probing endlessly, shamelessly, as though all that mattered was to be elsewhere.
Ian McEwan quotes: There is a compassion in rational thought that is sometimes missing in religious conviction. There is a compassion in rational thought that is sometimes missing in religious conviction.
Ian McEwan quotes: Not blemishes. Adornments. Not blemishes. Adornments.
Ian McEwan quotes: Not everyone knows what it is to have your father's rival's penis inches from your nose. Not everyone knows what it is to have your father's rival's penis inches from your nose.
Ian McEwan quotes: Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame. Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
Ian McEwan quotes: The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
Ian McEwan quotes: He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.
Ian McEwan quotes: He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end. He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
Ian McEwan quotes: I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.' I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
Ian McEwan quotes: He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die. He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
Ian McEwan quotes: The nineteenth century was closer than most women thought. The nineteenth century was closer than most women thought.
Ian McEwan quotes: Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy. Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.
Ian McEwan quotes: Don't unpack your heart. One detail tells the truth. Don't unpack your heart. One detail tells the truth.
Ian McEwan quotes: Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution
Ian McEwan quotes: Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
Ian McEwan quotes: It was a chilly sensation, growing up. It was a chilly sensation, growing up.
Ian McEwan quotes: But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish. But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
Ian McEwan quotes: This, as they used to say, was the side on which her bread was buttered. This, as they used to say, was the side on which her bread was buttered.
Ian McEwan quotes: I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form. I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.
Ian McEwan quotes: Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense. Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.
Ian McEwan quotes: Join MI5? I was ready to lead it. Join MI5? I was ready to lead it.
Ian McEwan quotes: No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process. No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.
Ian McEwan quotes: To take up the violin or any instrument was an act of hope, it implied a future. To take up the violin or any instrument was an act of hope, it implied a future.
Ian McEwan quotes: What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult? What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?
Ian McEwan quotes: Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater. Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
Ian McEwan quotes: Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information. Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information.
Ian McEwan quotes: Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to? Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to?
Ian McEwan quotes: The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands. The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.
Ian McEwan quotes: Children hated generously, capriciously. Children hated generously, capriciously.
Ian McEwan quotes: He wasn't offended. She was the one who was over-interpreting, and jittery in his presence, and she was annoyed with herself. He wasn't offended. She was the one who was over-interpreting, and jittery in his presence, and she was annoyed with herself.
Ian McEwan quotes: I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand. I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.
Ian McEwan quotes: Your reputation will rest only on this, because ultimately reality is social, it's among others that we have to live and their judgments matter. Your reputation will rest only on this, because ultimately reality is social, it's among others that we have to live and their judgments matter.
Ian McEwan quotes: They had never discussed feelings, and had no language for them now. They had never discussed feelings, and had no language for them now.
Ian McEwan quotes: Perhaps she would become one of those women, pitied or envied, who chose not to have children. Perhaps she would become one of those women, pitied or envied, who chose not to have children.
Ian McEwan quotes: By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives. By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.
Ian McEwan quotes: Was he pretending to be jealous to conceal the fact that he was? Was he pretending to be jealous to conceal the fact that he was?
Ian McEwan quotes: Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most. Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.
Ian McEwan quotes: Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
Ian McEwan quotes: Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes. Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.
Ian McEwan quotes: She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore. She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.
Ian McEwan quotes: Twas ostensibly ominous in the overviewTo be 'orribly and onerously overrun. Twas ostensibly ominous in the overview
To be 'orribly and onerously overrun.
Ian McEwan quotes: The homely and erotic patters of marriage are not easily discarded. The homely and erotic patters of marriage are not easily discarded.
Ian McEwan quotes: How do you feel?'Scared,' she said. 'Really scared.' But you don't look it.' I feel I'm shivering inside. How do you feel?'
Scared,' she said. 'Really scared.'
But you don't look it.'
I feel I'm shivering inside.
Ian McEwan quotes: There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics ... There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics ...
Ian McEwan quotes: When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it. When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.
Ian McEwan quotes: At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
Ian McEwan quotes: How quickly the dead faded into each other, How quickly the dead faded into each other,
Ian McEwan quotes: Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.
Ian McEwan quotes: In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long. In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.
Ian McEwan quotes: At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year. At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
Ian McEwan quotes: In the minds of the principals, the history of the marriage was redrafted to have been always doomed, love was recast as delusion. In the minds of the principals, the history of the marriage was redrafted to have been always doomed, love was recast as delusion.
Ian McEwan quotes: But this inglorious revolution wasn't for me. I didn't want a sex shop in every town. But this inglorious revolution wasn't for me. I didn't want a sex shop in every town.
Ian McEwan quotes: The conversation had turned again to those moments, by now enriched by a private mythology, when they first set eyes on each other The conversation had turned again to those moments, by now enriched by a private mythology, when they first set eyes on each other
Ian McEwan quotes: By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State
Ian McEwan quotes: That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed. That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.
Ian McEwan quotes: Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
Ian McEwan quotes: Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god. Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
Ian McEwan quotes: i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad. i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.
Ian McEwan quotes: What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak. What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.
Ian McEwan quotes: Above the rush-hour din it was her ideal self she heard, the pianist she could never become, performing faultlessly Bach's second partita. Above the rush-hour din it was her ideal self she heard, the pianist she could never become, performing faultlessly Bach's second partita.
Ian McEwan quotes: Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin. Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
Ian McEwan quotes: For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack. For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
Ian McEwan quotes: Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?''It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth. Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?'
'It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth.
Ian McEwan quotes: Not men who ran the world, but who made it run. Not men who ran the world, but who made it run.
Ian McEwan quotes: Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air
Ian McEwan quotes: This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.
Ian McEwan quotes: This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing. This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.
Ian McEwan quotes: A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Another was a passion for secrets... A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Another was a passion for secrets...
Ian McEwan quotes: Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert. Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.
Ian McEwan quotes: If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy. If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
Ian McEwan quotes: Since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate. Since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate.
Ian McEwan quotes: .. From there we came to love. We told each other what lovers never tire of hearing and needing to say. .. From there we came to love. We told each other what lovers never tire of hearing and needing to say.
Ian McEwan quotes: There was[is] something seriously wrong with the world for which neither God nor His absence could be blamed. There was[is] something seriously wrong with the world for which neither God nor His absence could be blamed.
Ian McEwan quotes: Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy. Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.
Ian McEwan quotes: Thus the engine of self-pity began to turn. Thus the engine of self-pity began to turn.
Ian McEwan quotes: The past had shown him many times that the future would be its own solution. The past had shown him many times that the future would be its own solution.
Ian McEwan quotes: Steve Earle, the thinking man's Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, the thinking man's Bruce Springsteen,
Ian McEwan quotes: I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.
Ian McEwan quotes: Say it again slowly, that thing about the river. Say it again slowly, that thing about the river.
Ian McEwan quotes: It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone. It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
Ian McEwan quotes: Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of not thinking. Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of not thinking.
Ian McEwan quotes: I made the enthusiast's mistake of assuming that everyone shared my previous ignorance. I made the enthusiast's mistake of assuming that everyone shared my previous ignorance.
Ian McEwan quotes: Childhoods shine through adult skin, helpfully or not. Childhoods shine through adult skin, helpfully or not.
Ian McEwan quotes: What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike? What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
Ian McEwan quotes: He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father. He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.
Ian McEwan quotes: Her forehead, so high and oval, reminded him of how Shakespeare was supposed to look. He was not certain how to put this to her. Her forehead, so high and oval, reminded him of how Shakespeare was supposed to look. He was not certain how to put this to her.
Ian McEwan quotes: One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
Ian McEwan quotes: There are not many options for the evening that follows an afternoon of drinking. Only two in fact: remorse, or more drinking and then remorse. There are not many options for the evening that follows an afternoon of drinking. Only two in fact: remorse, or more drinking and then remorse.
Ian McEwan quotes: She lay in the dark and knew everything. She lay in the dark and knew everything.
Ian McEwan quotes: She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill. She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill.
Ian McEwan quotes: Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on. Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on.

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