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.
KAZUO ISHIGUROWhen 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.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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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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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one’s past for such ‘turning points’, one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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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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There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.
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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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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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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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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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As a writer, I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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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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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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People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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