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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.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
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
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one’s past for such ‘turning points’, one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
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Beginning Myself Search See Start
You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.
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Break Conversation Move Proper Sleep Talk Travel
To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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Best Myself Proper See
An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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Artist Beautiful Himself
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.
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Acceptance Dignity Interest Myself People
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Accident Oneself Quite Truth
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
As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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Myself People Writing
There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.
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Dreams Forever Time
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
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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Break Heart Moments Myself
She always wanted to believe in things.
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Believe Herself Inspirational
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’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 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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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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