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I actually dislike, more than many people, working through literary allusion. I just feel that there's something a bit snobbish or elitist about that. I don't like it as a reader, when I'm reading something. It's not just the elitism of it; it jolts me out of the mode in which I'm reading. I've immersed myself in the world and then when the light goes on I'm supposed to be making some kind of literary comparison to another text. I find I'm pulled out of my kind of fictional world, I'm asked to use my brain in a different kind of way. I don't like that.

Kazuo Ishiguro's Popular Quotes

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

- 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…

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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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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…

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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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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-decepti…

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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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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

- Kazuo Ishiguro