Kazuo Ishiguro Short Quotes

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Tommy's got his shirt on. His favourite polo shirt.

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Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.

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My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

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An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

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Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

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Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.

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At least you got him to pipe down', she said, 'are you okay? Mad animal?

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What is the gallery? why should she have a gallery of things done by us?

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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

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To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

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It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that.

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She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

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You should never believe an author if he tells you why he has certain recurring themes.

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Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?

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The sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside.

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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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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

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And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

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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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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

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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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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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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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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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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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There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

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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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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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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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I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year and though i've got a lot out of it, i have to admit i'll welcome the chance to rest.

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