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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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Artist Author Performance World
To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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Best Myself Proper See
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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Break Heart Moments Myself
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 was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
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Difficult People Story Strange Thinking Time Writing
There’s still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I’m not trying to say I’m not happy with the novels I’ve written in the past. But it always feels to me like there’s another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.
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Goodness Happiness Head Myself Novel Thinking World 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
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
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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Family Help Kind People Way
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
The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
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Best Day Enjoyment Work Yourself
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
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Live Ourselves Philosophy Relationship
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
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Accident Oneself Quite Truth
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
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
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Book Myself Old Page Sea Thinking

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

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