"These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality."

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Ian Mcewan

#Memories Quotes #War Quotes #Sight Quotes

“I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.”

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“The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.”
“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.”
“It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.”
“Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!”
“It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.”
“If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.”
“The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russiaâ€™s communist workers.”

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