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Ian McEwan

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Ian McEwan

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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I’ll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

Ian McEwan

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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

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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

Ian McEwan

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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

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Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.

Ian McEwan

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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

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