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Confidence
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I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
-John McEnroe
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Books
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
-Ian McEwan
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Pessimism
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
-Ian McEwan
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Politics
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
-Ian McEwan
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Communism
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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
-Ian McEwan
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Authors & Writing
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
-Ian McEwan
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Greatness & Great Things
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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
-George McGovern
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Integrity
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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
-George McGovern
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Bureaucracy
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
-George McGovern
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Death
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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
-George McGovern
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