Ian Mcewan Quotes
I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I guess I crave stability.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision.
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Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.
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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.
