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.
KAZUO ISHIGUROAn artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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I think it’s quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.
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You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in this world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you’re going to write before you die.
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
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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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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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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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The Booker triumph of Graham Swift’s moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.
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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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And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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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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