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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
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.
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.
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
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.
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.
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
