The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.
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… - 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…
- Kazuo Ishiguro
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. - Kazuo Ishiguro
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. - Kazuo Ishiguro
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
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… - Kazuo Ishiguro
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…
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. - Kazuo Ishiguro
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.
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried? - Kazuo Ishiguro
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers. - Kazuo Ishiguro
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
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. - Kazuo Ishiguro
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.
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… - Kazuo Ishiguro
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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