Kazuo Ishiguro quotes - page 2

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company. View quote
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But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere. View quote
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She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone. View quote
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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 to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public. View quote
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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? View quote
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What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor. View quote
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It's nothing to do with you anyway. View quote
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I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest. View quote
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It'll come off. If you can't get it off yourself, just take it to Miss Jody. View quote
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Kath, I've been looking all over for you. I mean't to say sorry. I mean, I'm really, really sorry. I honestly didn't mean to hit you the other day. I wouldn't dream of hitting a girl, and even if I did, I'd never want to hit you. I'm really, really sorry. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "You've got to read a lot of other stuff" or "You've got to have had a good education in literature to fully appreciate what I'm doing." View quote
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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood. View quote
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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers. View quote
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What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment. View quote
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There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one's life. View quote
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What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it. View quote
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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? View quote
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As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things. View quote
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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 none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time. View quote
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It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event. View quote
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It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up. View quote
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What is this gallery? Why should she have a gallery of things done by us? View quote
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Ruth insisted – that she really was afraid of us. View quote
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