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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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Inspirational Motivational Time Wonderful Yourself
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
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
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 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
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
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
The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
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Happiness Leaving Myself People Problem See Understand
An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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Artist Beautiful Himself
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
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
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
I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished – the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
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Childhood Disappear Growth Nostalgia Place 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
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

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

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