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Book: Sweet Tooth
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  1. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. {He} owed nothing to a world that nurtured him kindly, liberally educated him for free, sent him to no wars, brought him to manhood without scary rituals or famine or fear of vengeful gods, embraced him with a handsome pension in his twenties and placed no limits on his freedom of expression. This was an easy nihilism that never doubted that all we had made was rotten, never thought to pose alternatives, never derived hope from friendship, love, free markets, industry, technology, trade, and all the arts and sciences.
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  2. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.
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  3. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    I said I didn't like tricks, I liked life as I knew it recreated on the page. He said it wasn't possible to recreate life on the page without tricks.
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  4. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!
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  5. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.
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  6. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option."
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  7. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.
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  8. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    My needs were simple. I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters I could believe in and I wanted to be made curious about what was to happen to them.
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  9. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.
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  10. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.
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  11. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?
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  12. Ian McEwan _ Sweet Tooth

    Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.
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