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.
KAZUO ISHIGUROMemory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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Love isn’t about when you first meet. It’s about the many, many years you spend together, when you’re trying to keep that flame burning.
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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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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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And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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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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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
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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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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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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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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 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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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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