"I think of my pile of old paperbacks,……" — Kazuo Ishiguro
"I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea."
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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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