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Ian Mcewan quotes

British Author, Writer June 21, 1948

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Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect..."
Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "All that's really required is that anything the state does in..."
All that's really required is that anything the state does in relation to the arts is laid on the table where we can see it. Ian Mcewan
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away..."
And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful. Ian Mcewan
As we walked back to the car, Johnny said, "A tree's one thing, but it's a big deal when you point a gun at someone. Basically, you're giving them permission to kill you. Ian Mcewan
Most houses were crammed with immovable objects in their proper places, and each object told you what to do - here you ate, here you slept, here you sat. I tried to imagine carpets, wardrobes, pictures, chairs, a sewing machine, in these gaping, smashed-up rooms. I was pleased by how irrelevant, how puny such objects now appeared. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "How do you feel?' Scared,' she said. 'Really scared.' But you..."
How do you feel?' Scared,' she said. 'Really scared.' But you don't look it.' I feel I'm shivering inside. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "She lay in the dark and knew everything."
She lay in the dark and knew everything. Ian Mcewan
But of course, it had all been her? by her and about her, 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 Ian Mcewan
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
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up..."
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only..."
Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any..."
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. Ian Mcewan

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