And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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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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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
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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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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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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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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
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I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
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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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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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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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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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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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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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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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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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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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I’ve always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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Even at the time, I realised this couldn’t be right, that this interpretation didn’t fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn’t an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.
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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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