Honor the extraordinary legacy of Kazuo Ishiguro on November 8 with these curated quotes, philosophical reflections, and heartfelt tributes celebrating their monumental impact on British Novelist, Screenwriter & Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017).
“What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?”
“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 ever see them fading.”
“If you are under the impression you have already lived the best days of your life, the remaining years become an exercise in quiet endurance.”
“Dignity has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits.”
“We all alter our memories in order to make our pasts bearable to our present selves.”
“In the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying?”
“There was an abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world, and literature exists to illuminate it.”
“You have to accept that your perspective is finite, but that should never stop you from seeking emotional truth.”
“To love someone means to accept that your happiness is forever hostage to their fragile existence.”
“Keep your prose quiet, for the loudest emotions reside in the words left unsaid.”
