Atonement Mcewan Quotes

#1. I see life as a classroom for humans to learn lessons, to grow and evolve.

Elaine Seiler

#2. i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

Ian McEwan

#3. Was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Ian McEwan

#4. If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#5. He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

Ian McEwan

#6. Say no to asphalt!

John Bytheway

#7. The LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

Anonymous

#8. Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

Christopher Hampton

#9. but there it was. Home was prison was home.

Robert K. Tanenbaum

#10. Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes the rich richer, enlarges the deficit and increases income and wealth inequality. We need economic policies which benefit working families, not the billionaire class.

Bernie Sanders

#11. Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

Jessica Hagedorn

#12. Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

John Banville

#13. I am not a 'wise man,' nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.

Seneca.

#14. It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

Ian McEwan

#16. I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.

Scott Stossel

#17. I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

Stephanie Beacham

#18. The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual.
It was difficult to come back.

Ian McEwan