One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
KAZUO ISHIGUROI think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
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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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People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you’re going to write before you die.
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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
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Because maybe, in a way, we didn’t leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it–unable quite to let each other go.
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I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I’ve always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
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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 fading.
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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
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As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.
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When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
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I don’t think it’s any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.
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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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