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

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  Moment , God , Believe , Atheist


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.

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  You , Man , God , Relax


By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  People , Good , Future , Faith


One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  Courage , Pessimism


Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  Politics , Imagination , Enemy


It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  Successful , Important , Duty , Opposition


Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  You , People , Past , God


What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  You , Myself , Bold , Savage


I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  Your , Who , Said , Meet


I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.

Author: Ian Mcewan - British Author
  Me , Time , Saying , Deep


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