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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 Picture Quote #1

No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know Picture Quote #1

He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse Picture Quote #1

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive Picture Quote #1

If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That’s what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up Picture Quote #1

Something has happened, hasn’t it?... It’s like being up close to something so large you don’t even see it. Even now, I’m not sure I can. But I know it’s there Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white Picture Quote #1

... the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen Picture Quote #1

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment’s thought, and that would take time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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And feeling clever, I’ve always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes Picture Quote #1

Love doesn’t grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those Picture Quote #1

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened Picture Quote #1

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed Picture Quote #1

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There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have Picture Quote #1

She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn’t there somewhere else for people to go? Picture Quote #1

There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself Picture Quote #1

Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract Picture Quote #1

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And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage Picture Quote #1

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy; for girls it’s like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading Picture Quote #1

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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) No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know (Ian Mcewan Quotes) He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse (Ian Mcewan Quotes) He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive (Ian Mcewan Quotes) If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That’s what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up (Ian Mcewan Quotes) Something has happened, hasn’t it?... It’s like being up close to something so large you don’t even see it. Even now, I’m not sure I can. But I know it’s there (Ian Mcewan Quotes) 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 (Ian Mcewan Quotes) We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white (Ian Mcewan Quotes) ... the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen (Ian Mcewan Quotes) Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment’s thought, and that would take time (Ian Mcewan Quotes) 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 (Ian Mcewan Quotes) 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 (Ian Mcewan Quotes) And feeling clever, I’ve always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful (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 (Ian Mcewan Quotes) I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes (Ian Mcewan Quotes) Love doesn’t grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those (Ian Mcewan Quotes) At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened (Ian Mcewan Quotes) Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed (Ian Mcewan Quotes) There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have (Ian Mcewan Quotes) She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime (Ian Mcewan Quotes) 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 (Ian Mcewan Quotes) And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn’t there somewhere else for people to go? (Ian Mcewan Quotes) There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself (Ian Mcewan Quotes) Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract (Ian Mcewan Quotes) And she did not miss his presence so much as his voice on the phone. Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time. His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage (Ian Mcewan Quotes) Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it’s okay to be a boy; for girls it’s like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading (Ian Mcewan Quotes) Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back (Ian Mcewan Quotes) 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 (Ian Mcewan Quotes)

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