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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 cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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End Myself Rare Start Way
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
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
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
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
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
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
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Beautiful Calm Feeling Greatness Land
I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.
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Feeling Life Myself Person
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.
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Book Different People Quite Stand Value Winner
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
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
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
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Accident Oneself Quite Truth
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
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

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