"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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"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."
-Ian Mcewan
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"London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right."
-Ian Mcewan
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"Politics is the enemy of the imagination."
-Ian Mcewan
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"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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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
-Terry Wogan
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
-Irving Howe
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
-Laurette Taylor
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
-Lionel Stander
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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