Ian Mcewan Quotes About Certainty

Quotes about: Certainty

• All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

  Ian Mcewan

  His Love, Reassurance, Lifetime

• When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Self, His Love

• I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Earth, Rubrics

  Interview with Zadie Smith, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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