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“...falling in love could be achieved in a single wordâ€”a glance.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Falling In Love #Fall #Glances
“I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Love #Believe #Doubt
“I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Beautiful #Daughter #Believe
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Torn #Materials #Persons
“The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Curiosity #World #Might
“The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesnâ€™t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who donâ€™t know you very well, are likely to think youâ€™re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Teacher #Stupid #School
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Dream #Return #Cost
“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Expression #Self #Giving
“When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Lost Love #Fighting #Suffering
“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Depression #Nails #Firsts
“It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorumâ€™s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Lying #Heart #Body
“At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Writing #Stronger #Might
“And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Thinking #Feet #World
“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#World #Notes #Should
“True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Imagination #Fabulous
“What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Identical
“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 the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Religious #Art #Simple
“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 truth that other people are as real as you.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Life #Real #Simple
“There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Sweet #Teenage #Distance
“These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Light #Darkness #Everyday
“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Mean #Feelings #Mind
“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Writing #Imagination #Fancy
“I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Children #Groups #Close Friends
“I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Successful #Rocks #Guitar
“Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.”
-- Ian Mcewan
“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 a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Men #Ice #White
“A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Stories #Gestures #Made
“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 subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Lying #Thinking #Psychosis
“Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Opportunity #Class #Betrayed
“Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”
-- Ian Mcewan

#Love You #Shame

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