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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 see them ever fading.

— Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go (2005)

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I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

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And I'm a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that.

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