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Only Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- 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…
- 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…
- In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now…
- She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,…
- But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so,…
- 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…
- When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that…
- We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.
- It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well…
- Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.
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