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Love isn’t about when you first meet. It’s about the many, many years you spend together, when you’re trying to keep that flame burning.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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
Because maybe, in a way, we didn’t leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.
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Fear Leaving Ourselves Philosophy Quite Stay
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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Alive Discover Imagination Myself World
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
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 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
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
Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It’s healthy.
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Conflict End Fight Greatness Health Organization
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 was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
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Difficult People Story Strange Thinking Time Writing
Love isn’t about when you first meet. It’s about the many, many years you spend together, when you’re trying to keep that flame burning.
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Burn Flame Love Relationship Togetherness Yourself
I think it’s quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.
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Difficult Life Myself People Quite Starve Thinking
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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Artist Author Performance World
As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.
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Body Development Disturb Intimacy Possible Wound
To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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Best Myself Proper See

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