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Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students, and so it was all the more disappointing when we behaved badly. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside. View quote
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Tommy's got his shirt on. His favourite polo shirt. View quote
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This is all strictly against regulations, of course, and Marie-Claude should never have asked you in. And naturally, I should have turned you out the second I knew you were here. But Marie-Claude doesn't care much for their regulations these days, and I must say, neither do I. View quote
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Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose. View quote
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It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that. View quote
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She said we weren't being taught enough. View quote
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I'd no idea if anyone was actually watching. View quote
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Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here? View quote
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Maybe she sells them. Outside, out there. View quote
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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."... I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that. I don't like it as a reader, when I'm reading something. It's not just the elitism of it; it jolts me out of the mode in which I'm reading. I've immersed myself in the world and then when the light goes on I'm supposed to be making some kind of literary comparison to another text. I find I'm pulled out of my kind of fictional world, I'm asked to use my brain in a different kind of way. I don't like that. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with. View quote
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nostalgic about their collections. View quote
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I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. ... I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. View quote
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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 is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong. View quote
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I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. View quote
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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 sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter? View quote
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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 would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not. View quote
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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 write something strange and difficult, that was the time. View quote
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People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help. View quote
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The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. View quote
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When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. View quote
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Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. View quote
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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. View quote
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