"True intelligence requires fabulous imagination."
-Ian Mcewan
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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.“
-Ian Mcewan
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"One has to have the courage of one's pessimism."
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"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
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"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."
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"I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building."
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"I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force."
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