"As a writer, I'm more interested in what……" — Kazuo Ishiguro
"As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened."
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138 Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something…
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I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And…
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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…
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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…
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I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might…
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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…
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More Actually Happened Quotes
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one of 53 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually…
— Damon Hill
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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.
— Mark Twain
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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,…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it once, and all the headlines came off…
— Clark Gable
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I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality…
— Rhonda Britten
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Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a…
— Eugene Chadbourne
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past…
— W G Sebald
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It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised…
— Florence Welch
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Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to…
— Alicia Machado
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[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears…
— Mark Twain
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