Quote by Ian Mcewan
One has to have the courage of ones pessimism. - Ian Mcewan

One has to have the courage of ones pessimism. – Ian Mcewan

Other quotes by Ian Mcewan

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 thats even possible, interested me. – Ian Mcewan

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Forgiveness
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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. – Ian Mcewan

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strength
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. – Ian Mcewan

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Courage
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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. – Marlene Dietrich

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Courage

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. – Thomas Szasz

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Courage

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it. – Timothy Dalton

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Courage

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. – Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher (season13, episode1, original airdate 2015

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Courage

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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. – James Joseph Sylvester

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Intelligence

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets. – Rupert Brooke

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cool
[T]he colored pencil. The day we received our first full box of assorted colors we felt grown-up, the passage from baby status to childhood was complete. The broken wax crayon stubbles were immediately thrown out to make way for the more elegant and “mature” pencils. – Bernard Aimé Poulin (b.1945), The Complete Colored Pencil Book, 2011

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Peace