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Ian McEwan je britský spisovatel, držitel Řádu britského impéria a autor známého románu Betonová zahrada. Pro ni a pro svá raná díla bývá v angličtině a francouzštině přezdíván Ian Macabre , v češtině někdy jako básník perverze. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. červen 1948   •   Další jména Ијан Макјуан, ایان مک‌یوون
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Ian McEwan nejznámější citáty

„Patřila mezi dívky, které žily ve svých představách.“

Ian McEwan

„Opakem nihilismu je kreativita. Nálada vybízející ke změnám, hlad po individuální svobodě, jež se teď šíří Blízkým východem. To vše připomíná nové možnosti spíš, než hrozbu.“

Ian McEwan

Zdroj: [Ian McEwan kritizoval „velké bezpráví“ v Izraeli, literarni.cz, 2011-02-21, 2013-08-14, http://www.literarni.cz/rubriky/aktualni/clanky/ian-mcewan-kritizoval-velke-bezpravi-v-izraeli_8278.html]

„Sekulární mysl se zdá mnohem lépe připravená na vytváření rozumných úsudků.“

Ian McEwan

Zdroj: [Ian McEwan vytáhl do "svaté války" s náboženstvím, magazin.aktualne.cz, 2014-04-17, 2016-05-23, http://magazin.aktualne.cz/kultura/literatura/ian-mcewan-vytahl-do-svate-valky-s-nabozenstvim/r~c38afec6c61d11e3ad22002590604f2e/]

„A teď, když vstupoval do závěrečných fází svého aktivního života, začínal chápat, že pokud nedojde k nějaké nepředvídané souhře okolností, jeho život se nezmění. Byl oklamán. Odjakživa se domníval, že v jeho dospělosti jednou nastane čas jakéhosi stabilizovaného stavu, kdy se naučí využívat veškeré triky, jak řídit svůj život nebo jen jednoduše žít. Kdy vyřídí veškerou poštu a e-maily, všechny papíry bude mít v pořádku, knihy vyrovnané na policích podle abecedy, oblečení a boty v dobrém stavu v šatnících a v botníku, všechny věci na svých místech, kde je bude umět najít, Svou minulost včetně dopisů a fotografií roztříděnou v krabicích a šanonech, soukromý život usazený a poklidný, stejně jako bydlení a peníze. Za celé ty roky nikdy k žádnému podobnému urovnání nedošlo, stabilizovaného stavu nikdy nedosáhl, ale přesto nadále předpokládal, aniž by nad stavem věcí uvažoval, že je už na dosah chvíle, kdy po vynaloženém úsilí kýženého stavu dosáhne, že nastane okamžik, kdy jeho život bude přehledný a duše svobodná, a jeho dospělá existence bude moct náležitě začít. Ale nedlouho po narození Catriony, přibližně v době, kdy se seznámil s Darlene, se domníval, že situaci poprvé vidí v celé její nahotě: v den, kdy umře, bude mít na sobě ponožky, které nepůjdou do páru, v počítači bude mít hromadu nezodpovězených e-mailů a v brlohu, kterému říká domov, budou nadále košile s chybějícími manžetovými knoflíčky, selhávající světlo na chodbě, nezaplacené složenky, neuklizená půda, mrtvé mouchy, a kolem něho budou kamarádi čekající na odpověď a milenky, k nimž se nebude hlásit. Zapomnění, poslední slovo v uspořádání všech věcí, mu bude jedinou útěchou.“

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Ian McEwan: Citáty anglicky

“It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Atonement

Zdroj: Atonement

“I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Enduring Love

Zdroj: Enduring Love

“I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Sweet Tooth

Zdroj: Sweet Tooth

“He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Amsterdam

Zdroj: Amsterdam

“He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.”

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Ian McEwan Saturday

Zdroj: Saturday

“When a court determines any question with respect to … the upbringing of a child … the child's welfare shall be the court's paramount consideration. ~ Section 1(1) Children Act 1989”

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Ian McEwan kniha The Children Act

Quoted at the front of the book.
The Children Act (2014)

“Ian McEwan: I guess my starting point would be: the brain is responsible for consciousness, and we can be reasonably sure that when that brain ceases to be, when it falls apart and decomposes, that will be the end of us. From that quite a lot of things follow, especially morally. We are the very privileged owners of a brief spark of consciousness, and we therefore have which one can work towards and maybe make sacrifices, and, crucially, make sacrifices of other people. We have a marvellous gift, and you see it develop in children, this ability to become aware that other people have minds just like your own and feelings that are just as important as your own, and this gift of empathy seems to me to be the building block of our moral system.Richard Dawkins: I profoundly agree with you, and I've always felt that one of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.Ian McEwan: And if you have a sacred text that tells you how the world began or what the relationship is between this sky-god and you, it does curtail your curiosity, it cuts off a source of wonder. The loveliness of the world in its wondrousness is not apparent to me in Islam or Christianity and all the other major religions.”

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Ian McEwan

from The Root of All Evil?, Channel 4 documentary, United Kingdom (January 2006).

“Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Solar

Page 149. (A line from Michael Beard's speech at the Savoy Hotel, London.)
Solar (2010)

“We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.”

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Ian McEwan kniha Amsterdam

Page 71.
Amsterdam (1998)

“I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way.”

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Ian McEwan kniha The Cement Garden

Page 9. (Opening line of the book)
The Cement Garden (1978)

“On a recent Sunday evening, Theo came up with an aphorism: the bigger you think, the crappier it looks. Asked to explain he said, "When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in – you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto – think small."”

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Ian McEwan Saturday

Page 34.
Saturday (2005)

“On the 9/11 hijackers: "Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a God. … It's human, universal, [it's] being able to think our way into the minds of others. As I said at the time, what those holy fools clearly lacked, or clearly were able to deny themselves, was the ability to enter into the minds of the people they were being so cruel to. Amongst their crimes, is, was, a failure of the imagination, of the moral imagination."”

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From "Faith and Doubt At Ground Zero," Frontline, February, 2002
Zdroj: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/interviews/mcewan.html

“He had once felt light on the ground. He used to think his life was an open-ended adventure, he used to give things away, it amused him when the unexpected happened, benevolent coincidences used to bear him along. When had all that stopped?”

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Ian McEwan kniha The Child in Time

Page 103
The Child in Time (1987)

“We went to a club where singers and stand-up comedians performed in the hope of being discovered. A thin girl with bright red hair and sequined T-shirt reached the end of her passionately murmured song on a sudden shrill, impossible top note. All conversation ceased. Someone, perhaps maliciously, dropped a glass. Halfway through, the note became a warbling vibrato and the singer collapsed on the stage in an abject curtsy, arms held stiffly in front of her, fists clenched. Then she sprang to her tiptoes and held her arms high above her head with the palms flat as if to forestall the sporadic and indifferent applause."They all want to be Barbra Streisand or Liza Minnelli," George explained as he sucked a giant cocktail through a pink plastic straw. "But no one's looking for that kind of stuff anymore."”

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Ian McEwan kniha In Between the Sheets

Page 139. (From the seventh and final short story, 'Psychopolis')
In Between the Sheets (1978)

“You want a picture of futility? It's a tunnel in the desert, from nowhere to nowhere, four hundred and fifty feet long.”

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Ian McEwan kniha The Innocent

Page 65.
The Innocent (1990)

“How can one understand the inner life of a character, real or fictional, without knowing the state of her finances?”

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Ian McEwan kniha Sweet Tooth

Page 42.
Sweet Tooth (2012)

“Nearby, where the main road forked, stood an iron cross on a stone base. As the English couple watched, a mason was cutting in half a dozen fresh names. On the far side of the street, in the deep shadow of a doorway, a youngish woman in black was also watching. She was so pale they assumed at first she had some sort of wasting disease. She remained perfectly still, with one hand holding an edge of her headscarf so that it obscured her mouth. The mason seemed embarrassed and kept his back to her while he worked. After a quarter of an hour an old man in blue workman's clothes came shuffling along in carpet slippers and took her hand without a word and led her away. When the propriétaire came out he nodded at the other side of the street, at the empty space and murmured, 'Trois. Mari et deux frères,' as he set down their salads.This sombre incident remained with them as they struggled up the hill in the heat, heavy with lunch, towards the Bergerie de Tédenat. They stopped half way up in the shade of a stand of pines before a long stretch of open ground. Bernard was to remember this moment for the rest of his life. As they drank from their water bottles he was struck by the recently concluded war not as a historical, geopolitical fact but as a multiplicity, a near-infinity of private sorrows, as a boundless grief minutely subdivided without diminishment among individuals who covered the continent like dust, like spores whose separate identities would remain unknown, and whose totality showed more sadness than anyone could ever begin to comprehend; a weight borne in silence by hundreds of thousands, millions, like the woman in black for a husband and two brothers, each grief a particular, intricate, keening love story that might have been otherwise. It seemed as though he had never thought about the war before, not about its cost. He had been so busy with the details of his work, of doing it well, and his widest view had been of war aims, of winning, of statistical deaths, statistical destruction, and of post-war reconstruction. For the first time he sensed the scale of the catastrophe in terms of feeling; all those unique and solitary deaths, all that consequent sorrow, unique and solitary too, which had no place in conferences, headlines, history, and which had quietly retired to houses, kitchens, unshared beds, and anguished memories. This came upon Bernard by a pine tree in the Languedoc in 1946 not as an observation he could share with June but as a deep apprehension, a recognition of a truth that dismayed him into silence and, later, a question: what possible good could come of a Europe covered in this dust, these spores, when forgetting would be inhuman and dangerous, and remembering a constant torture?”

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Ian McEwan kniha Black Dogs

Page 164-165.
Black Dogs (1992)

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”

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Ian McEwan kniha The Cement Garden

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