Remains Of The Day Quotes

10 quotes from 9 authors

Ten voices echo across the page, each pulling a thread of memory, duty, and the quiet ache of missed chances. The snippets weave together admiration for Ishiguro’s craft, a thought experiment about daily credit, and a meditation beneath English trees. For readers craving deeper layers, the Literary Time, Western Influence, and Philosophical Fiction pages offer fuller explorations.

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“Die, die we all pass away, But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay, And you might try to hide, And…

Danny Elfman - The Corpse Bride

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The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild…

Stephen King

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I think Chris' favorite role was in 'Remains of the Day,' which was the Merchant Ivory film that he shot not long…

Dana Reeve

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Most couples make the mistake of giving each other the remains of the daythe leftover time after every other relationship and task…

Rhoberta Shaler PhD

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I love the fact that James Ivory made films about Britain, made 'Howards End' and 'The Remains of the Day,' or that…

Andrew Haigh

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“Look at all the Eastern writers who've written great Western literature. Kazuo Ishiguro. You'd never guess that The Remains of the Day…

G. Willow Wilson

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“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and…

Jorge Luis Borges

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“Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to…

Anonymous

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“Even the apparently unreliable narrator is more often than not reliably unreliable. Think of Kazuo Ishiguro’s butler in The Remains of the…

James Wood

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“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit…

Jorge Luis Borges

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