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More Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
