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Ian Mcewan quotes about time

British Author, Writer June 21, 1948

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He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting. --Solar Ian Mcewan
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
Now time, afternoon time, which in the Midi is as elemental as air and light, expanded and rolled billowingly outwards across the rest of the day, and upwards to the vaults of the cobalt sky, freeing everyone in its delicious sprawl from their obligations. Ian Mcewan
And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time. Ian Mcewan
My ideal state as a reader when I’m reading other people is feeling I’m vaguely wasting my time when I’m not reading that novel. Ian Mcewan
Being late was a special kind of modern suffering, with blended elements of rising tension, self-blame, self-pity, misanthropy, and a yearning for what could not be had outside theoretical physics: time reversal. 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
The following day the editor presided over a sudued meeting with his senior staff. Tony Montano sat to one side, a silent observer. "It's time we ran more regular columns. They're cheap, and everyone else is doing them. You know, we hire someone of low to medium intelligence, possibly female, to write about, well, nothing much. You've seen that sort of thing. Goes to a party and can't remember anyone's name. Twelve hundred words."Sort of naval gazing," Jeremy Ball suggested."Not quite. Gazing... Ian Mcewan
Ian Mcewan quote: "Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the..."
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
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

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