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  1. Ian McEwan _ The Children Act

    The thing about Satan is that he's amazingly sophisticated. He puts a stupid idea like satanic whatever, abuse, into people's minds, then he lets it get disproved so everyone thinks that he doesn't exist after all, and then he's free to do his worst.
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  2. Ian McEwan _ The Children Act

    Worth remembering the world was never how she anxiously dreamed it.
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  3. Ian McEwan _ The Children Act

    Everyone knew the urge to run from the world; few dared do it.
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  4. Ian McEwan _ The Children Act

    A rather insistent cross-examiner asks a pathologist whether he can be absolutely sure that a certain patient was dead before he began the autopsy. The pathologist says he's absolutely certain. Oh, but how can you be so sure? Because, the pathologist says, his brain was in a jar sitting on my desk. But, says the cross-examiner, could the patient still have been alive nevertheless? Well, comes the answer, it's possible he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.
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  5. Ian McEwan _ The Children Act

    Blind luck, to arrive in the world with your properly formed parts in the right place, to be born to parents who were loving, not cruel, or to escape, by geographical or social accident, war or poverty. And therefore to find it so much easier to be virtuous.
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