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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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
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
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
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Adult Childhood Deep Logic Motivational 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
Even at the time, I realised this couldn’t be right, that this interpretation didn’t fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn’t an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.
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Chance Issues Lyrics Myself Right Time
People aren’t quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They’re not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
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Book Different People Quite Stand Value Winner
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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Break Heart Moments Myself
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
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
I want my words to survive translation.
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Myself Survive Translation Word
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.
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Life Mistake Oneself Satisfaction
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
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
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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Dreams Life Myself Spiritual

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