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Me Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
- All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The…
- I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the…
- I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me…
- You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then…
- Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago…
- I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
- I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
- Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
- Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
- 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.
- I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People…
- I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as…
- What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he…
- Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes…
- It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
- There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape,…
- Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an…
- It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact…
- I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just…
- …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, Ono,’ he continued.…
- What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing…
- If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm…
- It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the…
- Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale