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.
KAZUO ISHIGUROI have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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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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The Booker triumph of Graham Swift’s moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.
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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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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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Even 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.
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We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they’re capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don’t care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they’ve done wrong.
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I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.
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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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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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What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
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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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