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.
KAZUO ISHIGUROIts was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one’s development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one’s ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.
More Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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People aren’t quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They’re not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.
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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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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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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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Love isn’t about when you first meet. It’s about the many, many years you spend together, when you’re trying to keep that flame burning.
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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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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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As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.
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The world is crawling with authors touring now. They’re like performance artists.
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I want my words to survive translation.
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What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that’s been given to them, and find some dignity.
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I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can’t and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody’s head.
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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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And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it’s probably because I’m looking at them in the light of what came later.
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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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