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It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Booker triumph of Graham Swift’s moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.
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Brilliant Effort Move Quiet Understand
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
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
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I’ve always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
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Myself Song Start Story Writing
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
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
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
I try to always go for something very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
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Essential Interior Memories Myself Person
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
To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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Best Myself Proper See
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
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
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
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

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

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