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Element Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
- We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was…
- There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any…
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