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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.

Kazuo Ishiguro

What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
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Complete Different Enough Feeling Live Myself Time
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 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
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
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
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Friendship Generation Hero Myself Writing
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
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Fate Imitation Interest Myself Run Science Time Transcendence World
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
I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.
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Difference Reputation Thinking Winner Writing
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’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
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
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Best Day Enjoyment Work Yourself
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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Inspirational Motivational Time Wonderful Yourself
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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Achievement Day Easy Enjoyment Hard Work Knowledge Yourself
I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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Creation Interest Myself Novel World
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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Capability Doubt Impression Perfection Rise Yourself

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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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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