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- It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is…
- I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me…
- 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…
- I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself…
- One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate
- It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge…
- I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't…
- There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
- What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?…
- As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the…
- I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
- You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It…
- When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still…
- I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And…
- There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape,…
- But I really wanted to find it for you. And when it looked in the end like it wasn't going to turn up, I just…
- It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact…
- He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least.…
- 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…
- As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
- I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at…
- …It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued.…
- What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing…
- Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
- Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it…
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