It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.
KAZUO ISHIGURODon’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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I can’t even say I made my own mistakes. Really – one has to ask oneself – what dignity is there in that?
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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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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 I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.
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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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It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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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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I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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I think it’s quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.
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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
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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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I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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There’s still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I’m not trying to say I’m not happy with the novels I’ve written in the past. But it always feels to me like there’s another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.
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