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Thinking Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing…
- The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the…
- I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no…
- It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your…
- Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
- I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
- Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion…
- She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all…
- And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
- 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…
- 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…
- When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing…
- Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish…
- I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...
- The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are…
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