To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
KAZUO ISHIGUROPerhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It’s healthy.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
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I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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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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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
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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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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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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they’re capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don’t care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they’ve done wrong.
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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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Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It’s healthy.
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People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
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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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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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