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Kazuo Ishiguro has 140 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities…
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I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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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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It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm;…
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All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all…
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For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his…
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I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for…
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I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would…
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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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I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had,…
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was…
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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
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Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself…
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We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going…
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But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something…
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The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
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I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell,…
— Sylvia Plath
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There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing…
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There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a…
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I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with…
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Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.
— Charlie Munger
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Mimicking people was something I did already.
— Jane Horrocks
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