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Ian McEwan CBE je britský spisovateľ, víťaz Bookerovej ceny.

✵ 21. jún 1948  •  Ďalšie mená Ијан Макјуан, ایان مک‌یوون
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“These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up.”

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Ian McEwan kniha The Daydreamer

Zdroj: The Daydreamer

“Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality”

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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.”

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“I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Sweet Tooth

Zdroj: Sweet Tooth

“Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your unconscious choice of mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Enduring Love

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Zdroj: Enduring Love (1997)

“When anything can happen, everything matters.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Saturday

Zdroj: Saturday

“… beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.”

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Ian McEwan kniha On Chesil Beach

Zdroj: On Chesil Beach

“It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?”

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“Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“one could drown in irrelevance.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god?”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken”

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Ian McEwan kniha On Chesil Beach

Zdroj: On Chesil Beach

“Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Sweet Tooth

Zdroj: Sweet Tooth

“When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.”

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Ian McEwan kniha On Chesil Beach

Zdroj: On Chesil Beach

“She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Saturday

Zdroj: Saturday

“Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

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