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Are you still there, Axl?""Still here, princess. — Kazuo Ishiguro
My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.
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Who knows what will come when quick-tongued men make ancient grievances rhyme with fresh desire for land and conquest?
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I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.
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This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.
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It would be the saddest thing to me, princess. To walk separately from you, when the ground will let us go as we always did. Beatrice
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I thought sooner or later someone would start saying it had gone too far, but it just kept on, and no one said anything. I
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Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time.
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Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.
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Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.
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How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly?
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nothing and yet everything had passed between us.
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Plenty of couples, they start off loving each other, then get tired of each other, end up hating each other. Sometimes though it goes the other way.
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You need to remember that. If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
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There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one's life
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Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
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Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it - and Gawain's posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.
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If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.
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After all, if a community could reach some sort of an equilibrium without having to be guided by an outsider, then so much the better.
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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Abiding love that has endured the years - that we see only rarely. When we do, we're only too glad to ferry the couple together.
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Night, and besides, was ably helped by brave comrades." "The comrades he speaks of," Ivor said, "were too busy
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Dignity' has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits.
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But God will know the slow tread of an old couple's love for each other, and understand how black shadows make part of its whole.
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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
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Like you were sad, maybe. And a bit scared.
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I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.
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Perhaps God's so deeply ashamed of us, of something we did, that he's wishing himself to forget.
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Today's world is too foul a place for fine and noble instincts.
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When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.
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If disappointments do come, you will carry on still. You will say, just as he does, I am so lucky.
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I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
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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.
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Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.
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Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.
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Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.
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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.
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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
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I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent.
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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
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Oji just happened to suggest he had one or two
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I for one will never doubt that a desire to see 'justice in this world' lay at the heart of all his actions.
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And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later ...
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I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
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for if we're mortal let us at least shine handsomely in God's eyes while we walk this earth! Like
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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
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You'll figure it out! You get on your plane and I'll get on mine. And we'll see which one crashes!
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I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
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For their kind do not know what it is to risk everything in the endeavor to rise above the mediocre.
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I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make sure that one was me.
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The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.
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An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
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I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.
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It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.
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The danger isn't the river's speed, friend, but its slowness.
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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.
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Their points sharpened like giant pencils, completely
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She always wanted to believe in things.
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And when someone's asking you to do something in such a pleading way, everything goes against saying no. I
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Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.#Page: 120 — Kazuo Ishiguro
When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for?
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Don't you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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I don't think it's any fun, even if you are one of the most respected authors in the world like Margaret Atwood, to keep being nominated and not win.
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When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.
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How is it possible to hate so deeply for deeds not yet done?
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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory ...
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It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
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For some reason, we called it "umbrella sex"; if you fancied someone your own sex, you were "an umbrella.
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There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.
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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened
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A lot of the time, how you were regarded at Hailsham, how much you were liked and respected, had to do with how good you were at "creating." Ruth
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I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.
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If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
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Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?
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I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
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Our life together's like a tale with a happy end, no matter what turns it took in the way.
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I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
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Foolishness, sir. How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Or a peace hold for ever built on slaughter and a magician's trickery?
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You say you're sure? Sure that you're in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
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When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.
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