If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
KAZUO ISHIGUROAll children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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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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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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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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And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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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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You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
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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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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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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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You’re always in a rush, or else you’re too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.
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