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Simple Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.
- 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…
- Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly…
- 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…
- Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was…
- This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in…
- If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died,…
- Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no…
- My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters…
More Simple Quotes
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. — Michelle Bachelet
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. — Amy Adams
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr