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Because maybe, in a way, we didn’t leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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
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
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
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
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
An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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Artist Beautiful Himself
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can’t and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody’s head.
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Fiction Head Movie Novel Thinking Yourself
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
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
What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
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Complete Different Enough Feeling Live Myself Time
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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Artist Author Performance World
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
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
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Company Expectation Myself Time
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
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Accident Oneself Quite Truth
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

Because maybe, in a way, we didn’t leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.

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Because maybe, in a way, we didn’t leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.

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