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. Ian Mcewan More Quotes by Ian Mcewan More Quotes From Ian Mcewan From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. Ian Mcewan obvious-things perspective simple 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? Ian Mcewan body heart lying A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Ian Mcewan mind feelings mean It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. Ian Mcewan real simple life Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy. Ian Mcewan erotic self joy The world should take note: not everything is getting worse. Ian Mcewan notes should world Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed. Ian Mcewan betrayed class opportunity Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence Ian Mcewan evidence innocent guilty You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. Ian Mcewan nails depression firsts The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead. Ian Mcewan curiosity might world i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad. Ian Mcewan let-me mad My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters I could believe in, and I wanted to be made curious about what was to happen to them. Generally, I preferred people to be falling in and out of love, but I didn't mind so much if they tried their hand at something else. It was vulgar to want it, but I liked someone to say 'Marry me' by the end. Ian Mcewan character believe fall It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. Ian Mcewan educational intellectual people 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. Ian Mcewan liberation comforting interesting The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis. Ian Mcewan lying ideas thinking When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion. Ian Mcewan being-wrong diversion consequence What is lawful is not always identical to what is right. Ian Mcewan identical I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends. Ian Mcewan close-friends groups children Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this." Ian Mcewan careers sticks thinking How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. Ian Mcewan rosary guilt self
