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born 1954 England

Kazuo Ishiguro (born November 8, 1954) is a British novelist of Japanese descent. In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

And I'm a Hailsham student – which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

It'll come off. If you can't get it off yourself, just take it to Miss Jody.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

What is this gallery? Why should she have a gallery of things done by us?

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Maybe she sells them. Outside, out there.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Ruth, incidentally, was only the third or fourth donor I got to choose.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

She said we weren't being taught enough.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

After all, there's no turning back the clock now. One can't be forever dwelling on what might have been. One should realize one has as good as most, perhaps better, and be grateful.

The Remains of the Day (1989)

Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

The Sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

I won't be a carer any more come the end of the year, and though I've got a lot out of it, I have to admit I'll welcome the chance to rest.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in – particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.

The Remains of the Day (1989)

Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students, and so it was all the more disappointing when we behaved badly.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. … I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

This is all strictly against regulations, of course, and Marie-Claude should never have asked you in. And naturally, I should have turned you out the second I knew you were here. But Marie-Claude doesn't care much for their regulations these days, and I must say, neither do I.

Never Let Me Go (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kazuo Ishiguro (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.