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Looks Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

9 Looks quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro treats looks with a quiet, literary elegance, offering nine concise observations that echo his themes of recollection and identity. The tone feels like a gentle turn of a page, inviting readers to contemplate the past through visual cues.

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There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when…

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If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

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Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

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Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks…

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I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which…

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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,…

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…It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts,…

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I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly…

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After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But…

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The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

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“About him and his wife voting for different parties. A few years ago that would have been unthinkable.” “No doubt.” “Quite extraordinary the things…

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“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably…

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“Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.”

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“I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make…

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Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years…

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He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at…

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“For however one may come in later years to reassess one’s achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one’s life has contained…

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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…

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I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep…

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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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“But this small episode is as good an illustration as any of the hazards of uttering witticisms. By the very nature of a witticism,…

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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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My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend…

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