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Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into human nature. His works often explore themes of memory, identity, and common human emotions. Born on November 8, 1954, Ishiguro's career began with the publication of his first novel 'When Breath Becomes Air' in 1982, which received widespread acclaim.

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“I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.”

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Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“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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Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.”

Ifs Knows Love Facts Powerful Our Lives Needed Understood Tasks Tides Tugging

Book:Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

“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.”

Ifs Knows Needs Remember Lying Who You Are Decent Let Me Go Decent Life Never Let Me Go You Let Me Go

Book:Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

“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.”

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Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.”

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Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.”

People Knows Needs Feels Might Happens Nations Fear Race Get Away Collapse Civilisation Might Is Right

Book:When We Were Orphans

Source: When We Were Orphans

“What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”

Knows Needs Feels Land Greatness Remains Restraint Calmness Pertinent

Book:The Remains of the Day

Source: The Remains of the Day

“It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.”

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Book:Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide

Source: Never Let Me Go: With GCSE and A Level study guide

“You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?”

Thinking Knows Simple Love Is

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether. For one thing, how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected? One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate.”

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Book:The Remains of the Day

Source: The Remains of the Day

“All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over. Except of course, you here in Europe don't yet seem to know it.”

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Book:The Remains of the Day

Source: The Remains of the Day

“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.”

Knows Want Film Curious Film And Music

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

About the Author

Born: November 8, 1954
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 218

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