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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
KAZUO ISHIGURO

Artist Author Performance World
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 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
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 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
The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
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Happiness Leaving Myself People Problem See Understand
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
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Beautiful Calm Wisdom
And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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Enough Myself People Student Time
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
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Live Need Oneself Remember Yourself
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
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
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
Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator’s memories and thoughts.
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Frame Memories Myself Novel Remember Thinking Universe

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