When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't … - Kazuo Ishiguro

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Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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 had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk. . . And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

Heartbroken, Growing Up, Believe, Grow, Tug

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But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

Begins, Benefit, Benefits, Everywhere, Hindsight, Past

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Gone, Pile, Sea, Think, Thinking

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Like, Memories, Memory, Texture, Writing

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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Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

Church, Conflicts, Day, Healthy, Mixture, People