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I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.

I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.
– Ian McEwan

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  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
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  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
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  25. When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville) – Marti Melville
  26. When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. – Marti Melville
  27. I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine. – Jane WilsonHowarth
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  38. Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams. – Grant Morrison
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