Quotes by Ian Mcewan
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might ...
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists ...
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what ...
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By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
