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Ian Mcewan quotes about personality

British Author, Writer June 21, 1948

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Ian Mcewan quote: "The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal..."
The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts..."
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. Ian Mcewan
But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things. Ian Mcewan
So Junes idea was that if one dog was a personal depression, two dogs were a kind of cultural depression, civilisations worst moods. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "It's hilarious to recognize how completely another person..."
It's hilarious to recognize how completely another person resembles your imperfect self. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while..."
Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Ian Mcewan
From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. Ian Mcewan
However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe. Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and..."
A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. Ian Mcewan

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