Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.

Ian McEwan

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Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

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Tag: time waiting



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Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence

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It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.

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How quickly the dead faded into each other,

Ian McEwan

Tag: dead fade



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Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.

Ian McEwan

Tag: humor



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Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

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Tag: humor death futility



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Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.

Ian McEwan


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But belligerence was a poor aid to concentration, as were three gins and a bottle of wine

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...but hearing and seeing only the bright hurry-gurdy carousel os his twirling thoughts, and the same hard little horses bobbing by on their braided rods. Here they came again. The outrage! The police! Poor Molly! Sanctimonious bastard! Call that a moral position? Up to his neck in shit! The outrage! And what about Molly....?

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