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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.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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.
KAZUO ISHIGURO

Imagination Myself Nature Quite Travel
People aren’t quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They’re not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
KAZUO ISHIGURO

Book Different People Quite Stand Value Winner
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
She always wanted to believe in things.
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Believe Herself Inspirational
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.
KAZUO ISHIGURO

Happiness Leaving Myself People Problem See Understand
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
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
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.
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Disaster Fingers Mistake Move 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

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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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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