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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
She always wanted to believe in things.
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.
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
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.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
