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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
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.
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.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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.
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.
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.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
