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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

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.
KAZUO ISHIGURO

Feeling Life Myself Person
There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
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Fate Imitation Interest Myself Run Science Time Transcendence World
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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Dreams Life Myself Spiritual
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
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
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
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
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
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
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Children Management Parents Person Teacher Yourself
She always wanted to believe in things.
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Believe Herself Inspirational
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
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
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
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
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.
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Friendship Generation Hero Myself Writing
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

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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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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