I want my words to survive translation.
KAZUO ISHIGUROTo see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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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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As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.
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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.
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An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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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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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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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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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.
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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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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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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
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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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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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And I’m a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people’s backs up.
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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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