"Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no one ever mentioned it, an immediate sensual connection to people and events, and to her own needs and desires? All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from herself, never wanting or daring to look back."

-- Ian Mcewan

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“Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.”
“I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."”

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“How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.”
“England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not even England has the money nowadays to fight a world war. What should England fight for? You don't get yourself killed over an ally.”
“There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.”
“How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?”
“Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.”

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“I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.”

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