Ian Mcewan Quotes

• The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

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  Curiosity, World, Might

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• No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

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  Borrowed, Knows

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• Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

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  Compassion, Essence, Humanity

  "Only love and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against their murderers" by Ian Mcewan, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2001.

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• True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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  Imagination, Fabulous, True Intelligence

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• ...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

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  Falling In Love, Fall, Glances

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.7, Random House

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• When anything can happen, everything matters.

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  Matter, Anything Can Happen, Happens

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• There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

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  Art, Israel, Way

  "Ian McEwan defends decision to accept Jerusalem prize" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2011.

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• 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 to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in - you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.

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  Girl, Song, Thinking

  "Saturday". Book by Ian Mcewan, 2005.

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• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

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  Want, Helping, Stranger

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• Una persona es, entre todo, una cosa material, fácilmente desgarrable y no fácil de remendar.

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  People, Novelists, Vulnerable

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

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  Desert, Saws, Ends

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• 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.

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  Self, Expression, Giving

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• This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

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  Doing Nothing, Changed, Courses

  "On Chesil Beach". Book by Ian Mcewan, 2007.

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• Sabemos muy poco los unos de los otros. Estamos casi sumergidos, como témpanos de hielo, y nuestro yo social visible sólo proyecta frialdad y blancura.

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  Lying, Self, Ice

  Ian McEwan (1998). “Amsterdam, Or, The Spoiler: A Comi-tragedy”, Vintage

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• You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

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  Personas, Historias, Camino

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• You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

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  Depression, Nails, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Love, Romantic, Believe

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, www.marieclaire.co.uk. 2001.

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• For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don't feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say 'When I grow up,' there is always an edge of disbelief - how could they ever be other than what they are?

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  Children, Growing Up, Memories

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• He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

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  Next, Exit, Lost

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• one could drown in irrelevance.

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  Irrelevancia

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• Las novelas sin personajes femeninos eran un desierto sin vida.

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  Character, Female, Desert

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• 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 likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.

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  Profesor, Estúpido, Escuela

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• Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

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  Thinking, Careers, Sticks

  Ian McEwan, Ryan Roberts (2010). "Conversaciones con Ian McEwan", Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.

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  Ideas, People, Design

  "Black Dogs". Book by Ian McEwan, December 29, 1998.

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• Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

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  Self, Joy, Erotic

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.102, Random House

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