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.
KAZUO ISHIGUROAnd I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life.
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It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
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I want my words to survive translation.
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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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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She always wanted to believe in things.
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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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The evening’s the best part of the day. You’ve done your day’s work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
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When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
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