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Rather Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 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 for self-deception are…
- 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 was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself…
- As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
- 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…
- I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about…
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