She always wanted to believe in things.
KAZUO ISHIGUROWhat is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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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.
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People aren’t quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They’re not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
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You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
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I want my words to survive translation.
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The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
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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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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.
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You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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