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8 Remember quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Ishiguro’s literary voice, steeped in melancholy, surfaces in these short reflections on the past, offering a quiet, resonant mood.

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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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There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was…

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You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the…

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When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the…

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Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that.…

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You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead…

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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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What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood.…

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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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“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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