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Time Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
- I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to…
- 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 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…
- There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why…
- Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
- There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make…
- We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time…
- 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 work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at…
- 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…
- What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe…
- And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we…
- There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.
- After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults,…
- …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.…
- Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it…
- I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I…
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