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She always wanted to believe in things.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
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Color Memories Oneself Remember
She always wanted to believe in things.
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Believe Herself Inspirational
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
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
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
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
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
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
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 cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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End Myself Rare Start Way
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
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Live Need Oneself Remember Yourself
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
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Children Management Parents Person Teacher Yourself
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
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
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
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Company Expectation Myself Time
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

She always wanted to believe in things.

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