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Memory's got nothing to do with years. You remember what you remember.

Memory’s got nothing to do with years. You remember what you remember.
– Ian McEwan

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  2. The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety. – Ian McEwan
  3. Either I’ve always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don’t know what it means. – Ian McEwan
  4. Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air – Ian McEwan
  5. Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world. – Ian McEwan
  6. …children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival. – Ian McEwan
  7. I’ve never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand. – Ian McEwan
  8. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious. – Ian McEwan
  9. I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore…it’s in the stars! – Ian McEwan
  10. You can tell a lot from a person’s nails. When a life starts to unravel, they’re among the first to go. – Ian McEwan
  11. He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father. – Ian McEwan
  12. I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself. – Ian McEwan
  13. He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning. – Ian McEwan
  14. Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy. – Ian McEwan
  15. So here I am, upside down in a woman. – Ian McEwan
  16. The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands. – Ian McEwan
  17. All day we’ve witnessed each other’s crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die? – Ian McEwan
  18. Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most. – Ian McEwan
  19. In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition. – Ian McEwan
  20. But this inglorious revolution wasn’t for me. I didn’t want a sex shop in every town. – Ian McEwan
  21. It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully combine with a sense of obligation. – Ian McEwan
  22. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation. – Ian McEwan
  23. Or he was simply pretending-”like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before. – Ian McEwan
  24. Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
  25. Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me.Those are the years that know-“ love’s eternity is you. – C Elizabeth
  26. And years from now,you may not remember exactly what you ate.But you’ll remember who you ate with. – Lisa Schroeder
  27. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
  28. I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt. – Neil Gaiman
  29. We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t. – Jeanette Winterson
  30. When people tell you that you are good for nothing, remember that God made the world from nothing and nothing can change into something anytime. – Luffina Lourduraj
  31. We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have almost certainly forgotten more than we currently remember. – Ian M Bates
  32. The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination. – Andrew McEwan
  33. I can’t remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions. – Margaret Atwood
  34. An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing. – Nicko Widjaja
  35. When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose. – John Kuypers
  36. I’ve lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,’ I said. ‘Actors and musicians-they’re saints to me. – Anne Rice
  37. When days seem like years and years feel like days. – Robert Brown Fulford
  38. Life is made up of Moments. Moments create Days, days create Months, months create Years, years create LIFE. Lose the Moment and you lose Life. – RVM
  39. This is the music business. ‘Five years is five hundred years’ – your words. – Jennifer Egan
  40. We grow old not by the number of our years, but by not numbering our years – not living our dreams, not enjoying the everyday life – Bernard Kelvin Clive

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