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I don’t think it’s any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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Change Myself Natural Old Way
Even the solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like. I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.
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Company Feeling Growth Myself Road Solitude
I can’t even say I made my own mistakes. Really – one has to ask oneself – what dignity is there in that?
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Dignity Mistake Myself
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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Inspirational Motivational Time Wonderful Yourself
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
Even at the time, I realised this couldn’t be right, that this interpretation didn’t fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn’t an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.
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Chance Issues Lyrics Myself Right Time
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
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they’re capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don’t care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they’ve done wrong.
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Body Care Human Live Love Loyalty Possession Right Status Wrong Yourself
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
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Children Management Parents Person Teacher Yourself
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
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.
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Break Conversation Move Proper Sleep Talk Travel
As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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Myself People 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
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
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one’s development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one’s ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.
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Ability Challenge Development Judgement Limitation Oneself

I don’t think it’s any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.

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I don’t think it’s any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.

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