Tag: Ian McEwan

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strength

Ian Mcewan | strength

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

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religion

Ian Mcewan | religion

I don’t believe there’s any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

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politics

Ian Mcewan | politics

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

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politics

Ian Mcewan | politics

London in the ’70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

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intelligence

Ian Mcewan | intelligence

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.

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intelligence

Ian Mcewan | intelligence

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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Ian Mcewan | imagination

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

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All Quotes

Ian Mcewan | imagination

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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future

Ian Mcewan | future

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 put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

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funny

Ian Mcewan | funny

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

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