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Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, England on June 21, 1948.
* He studied English at the University of Sussex and the University of East Anglia.
* He is the author of 14 novels, 5 short story collections, and 2 screenplays.
* His work has been translated into over 30 languages.
* He has won numerous awards, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
* He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
* He is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
* He is a controversial figure, known for his dark humor and disturbing subject matter.
* He is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.

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.

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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

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When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

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No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

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Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

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And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

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This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

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