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.
KAZUO ISHIGUROEven the solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like. I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.
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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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What 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.
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I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can’t and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody’s head.
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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.
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