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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Accident Oneself Quite Truth
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
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Experience Fiction Service Stuff Thinking Writing
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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Fiction Greatness Interest Myself
To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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Best Myself Proper See
I want my words to survive translation.
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Myself Survive Translation Word
Even the solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like. I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.
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Company Feeling Growth Myself Road Solitude
I don’t think it’s any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.
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Author Fun Myself Nomination Respect Thinking
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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Inspirational Motivational Time Wonderful 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
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.
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Disaster Fingers Mistake Move Yourself
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
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
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Blame Forever Live Ourselves Quite
I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.
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Difference Reputation Thinking Winner Writing
The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
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Best Day Enjoyment Work Yourself

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