Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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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Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one’s development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one’s ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.
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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 discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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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 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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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 don’t think it’s any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.
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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.
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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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She always wanted to believe in things.
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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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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.
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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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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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