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More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportuniti...more

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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 ever see them fa...more

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What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to complet...more

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But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movemen...more

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This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

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But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive on...more

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Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a word in Japanese, perhaps the Japanese for ‘nostalgi...more