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...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

…children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.
– Ian McEwan

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  2. I’ve never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand. – 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. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. – Ian McEwan
  5. The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety. – Ian McEwan
  6. 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
  7. Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world. – 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. Memory’s got nothing to do with years. You remember what you remember. – Ian McEwan
  13. I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself. – Ian McEwan
  14. He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning. – Ian McEwan
  15. Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy. – Ian McEwan
  16. So here I am, upside down in a woman. – Ian McEwan
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  18. All day we’ve witnessed each other’s crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die? – Ian McEwan
  19. Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most. – Ian McEwan
  20. In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition. – Ian McEwan
  21. But this inglorious revolution wasn’t for me. I didn’t want a sex shop in every town. – Ian McEwan
  22. 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
  23. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation. – Ian McEwan
  24. Or he was simply pretending-”like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before. – Ian McEwan
  25. Truly speaking -finding happiness is to do with being selfish, but that doesn’t mean true selfish – Praveen Chenna
  26. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. – Yann Martel
  27. What I understand now about survival is that something in you dies. You don’t become a survivor intact. Survival’s cost is always loss. – J Dylan Yates
  28. Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably. – Israelmore Ayivor
  29. Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere. – Bryant McGill
  30. Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably? – Sophie Hannah
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  32. [The Rule:] Just do the next thing you’re reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do. – Clare De Graaf
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  34. …ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity. – Kelley Armstrong
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  36. Ryder had her laptop. He had access to all of her saved ????. All of it. And there was a lot. Like, more than there reasonably should be. – Helena Hunting
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  39. We are programmed to succeed from birth, but we deprogram ourselves with believes – Daniel Marques
  40. Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. It’s been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was. – Paula Stokes

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