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The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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Inspirational Motivational Time Wonderful Yourself
Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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Change Myself Natural Old Way
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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Alive Discover Imagination Myself World
It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.
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Achievement Day Easy Enjoyment Hard Work Knowledge Yourself
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can’t and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody’s head.
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Fiction Head Movie Novel Thinking Yourself
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
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Fade Memories Myself Quick See Surprise
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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Artist Author Performance World
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished – the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
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Childhood Disappear Growth Nostalgia Place Way
There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you’re going to write before you die.
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Book Count Death Writing Yourself
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
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Beautiful Calm Feeling Greatness Land
Even at the time, I realised this couldn’t be right, that this interpretation didn’t fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn’t an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.
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Chance Issues Lyrics Myself Right Time
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
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Live Ourselves Philosophy Relationship
There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.
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Life Mistake Oneself Satisfaction
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
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Book Myself Old Page Sea Thinking
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
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Art Evidence Reveal Soul Yourself

The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

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The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

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