"As with a wound on one's own body,……" — Kazuo Ishiguro

"As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things"

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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138 Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro has 138 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure,…
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within…
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is…
For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something…
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And…
I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And…
You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success…
I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might…
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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