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Quite Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
- For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I…
- People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary…
- Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
- As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the…
- The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I…
- Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of…
- Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple…
- After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might…
- One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
- 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…
- I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned.…
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