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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Kazuo Ishiguro

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
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
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
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
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
And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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Enough Myself People Student Time
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
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
An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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Artist Beautiful Himself
I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
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Friendship Myself Politics Quite Reason Student Talk Thinking
And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it’s probably because I’m looking at them in the light of what came later.
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Light Myself Pieces See
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Accident Oneself Quite Truth
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
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
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

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

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