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"I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence."
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"When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction."
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"I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won't stay still for me, they move, there's a smile and it's gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper's burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. But they fade, though I stretch out my arms towards them, they slip away from me, ghosts at daybreak. Back to wherever they are. Stay with me, I want to say. But they won't."
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"I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once."
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"By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself."
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"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
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"Create memories every day. Enjoy every moment every way."
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"There is nothing like an odor to stir memories."
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"Everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ..."
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"The marks we leave are too often scars."
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"Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns."
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"Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are."
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"You learn a lot, writing fiction."
Fiction
"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
Want
"We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from."
Identity
"I rather like getting away from fiction."
Fiction
"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."
Thought
"It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency."
Choice
"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
History
"The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss."
Change
"I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for."
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