All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
KAZUO ISHIGURONow naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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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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Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It’s healthy.
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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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I try to always go for something very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
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I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
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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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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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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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I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished – the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
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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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I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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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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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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