"What is lawful is not always identical to…" — Ian Mcewan
"What is lawful is not always identical to what is right."
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186 Quotes by Ian Mcewan
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- All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture…
- Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.
- Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
- I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated…
- It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point.…
- Be wary of too much calm, particularly in your mid-fifties.
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