What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the … - Kazuo Ishiguro

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If you create something, it really should mean something more than that to you. I had to grow into all of this though, through a learning process. I didn't wake up one day and just say, 'Yeah, that's Jlin, there it is'. That's why I said it took my entire life to make this album and it comes back to having that comfort zone - if you don't have one, the more progress you make and the more creative you become over time.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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.

Carpe Diem, Different, Enough Time, Maybe, People, Save

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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.

Framed, Memories, Remember, Typically, Universe

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