"By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State"

-- Ian Mcewan

#Individuality Quotes #Novelists Quotes #States Quotes

“If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of 500 Bibles.In the meantime human beings have discovered this for themselves. That's right. They have uncovered our profoundest concept -- namely, that life is ultimately reading. They themselves are the Book of Books.”
“The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.”
“I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.”
“The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”
“My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.”
“Every girl wants to be the one girl that can change that guy”
“Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant commmunities of the world.”
“Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.”

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