Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

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.

- 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…

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

- Kazuo Ishiguro

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

- Kazuo Ishiguro