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“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall On Your Knees

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Children hated generously, capriciously.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement