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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Ishiguro Kazuo
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
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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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I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
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Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.
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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.
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What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.
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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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Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
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She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.
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What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.
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As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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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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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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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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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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