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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?

Kazuo Ishiguro

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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Author Fun Myself Nomination Respect Thinking
I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.
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Difference Reputation Thinking Winner Writing
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Children Growth Trauma
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
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
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
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
She always wanted to believe in things.
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Believe Herself Inspirational
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
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
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
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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Inspirational Motivational Time Wonderful Yourself
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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Dreams Life Myself Spiritual
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
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

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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