Ian McEwan Quotes

I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was Me. But Everyone Claims Not To Have Been First. What Is Certain Is That If We Had Not Broken Ranks, Our Collective Weight Would Have Brought The Balloon To Earth A Quarter Of The Way Down The Slope A Few Seconds Later As The Gust Subsided. But As I've Said, There Was No Team, There Was No Plan, No Agreement To Be Broken. No Failure. So Can We Accept That It Was Right, Every Man For Himself? Were We All Happy Afterwards That This Was A Reasonable Course? We Never Had That Comfort, For There Was A Deeper Covenant, Ancient And Automatic, Written In Our Nature. Co-operation - The Basis Of Our Earliest Hunting Successes, The Force Behind Our Evolving Capacity For Language, The Glue Of Our Social Cohesion. Our Misery In The Aftermath Was Proof That We Knew We Had Failed Ourselves. But Letting Go Was In Our Nature Too. Selfishness Is Also Written In Our Hearts.

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

Ian McEwan Quotes: I Didn't Know, Nor Have I Ever Discovered, Who Let Go First. I'm Not Prepared To Accept That It Was

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