Ian McEwan
British novelist and screenwriter
Exhilarating. I’ve been extremely lucky in that the person I love, Annalena, happens to be my wife.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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Daily life
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Time & hindsight
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A longed-for, familiar shore at sunset.
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Mandy Patinkin
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Love is a religious experience, which then requires me to define religion, which I define as everything I don’t understand.
Can’t remember.
An umbilical cord.
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The world we are bequeathing to our children and our children’s children, both climatically and politically.
Better hearing.
A saint. Then a ballerina.
As good enough.
When my son was born. Actually, probably a month after, when I got over the enormous responsibility of being a mum.
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