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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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Memories Memory Quite Writing
I try to always go for something very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
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Essential Interior Memories Myself Person
You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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Acceptance Growth People Process World
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
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
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Difficult People Story Strange Thinking Time Writing
Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator’s memories and thoughts.
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Frame Memories Myself Novel Remember Thinking Universe
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
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Fate Imitation Interest Myself Run Science Time Transcendence World
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
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Love Simplicity Yourself
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way – one solid scene doesn’t have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
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Fact Fragment Memories Place Time Work Writing
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
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Capability Doubt Impression Perfection Rise 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
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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Dreams Life Myself Spiritual
I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.
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Feeling Life Myself Person
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.
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Imagination Myself Nature Quite Travel

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

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