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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

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
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
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
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
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Art Evidence Reveal Soul Yourself
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
She always wanted to believe in things.
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Believe Herself Inspirational
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
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People 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
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
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
You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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Acceptance Growth People Process World
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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Memories Memory Quite Writing
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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Break Heart Moments Myself
I want my words to survive translation.
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Myself Survive Translation Word
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

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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