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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
She always wanted to believe in things.
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
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.
I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
