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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#acute #affectionate #articulate #deal #drinking

My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#acute #affectionate #articulate #deal #drinking

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#believe #comes #god #i #moment

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ↗

— Herman Melville

#goodness #more #sorrow #than #too

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#fades #feeling #larger #lighter #never

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#misunderstand #other #out #people #spin

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#controlled #declared #end #enter #even

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#actor #battles #being #else #gay

I used to get letters from girl reporters saying that their lives were nowhere near as exciting as Brenda's. I told them that if I made Brenda's life like theirs, nobody would read it. ↗

— Dale Messick

#exciting #get #girl #i #letters