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.
KAZUO ISHIGUROSometimes 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.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.
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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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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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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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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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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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And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it’s probably because I’m looking at them in the light of what came later.
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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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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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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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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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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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I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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