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Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning English novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro graduated from the University of Kent with a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy in 1978 and gained his master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980.

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When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

Cause, Father, Man, Men, Suspicious, Wife

You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

Certain, Feelings, Happens, Pawns, People, Things

When I got to 40 or so. . . I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Actually, Decision, Literature, Mess, Sort, Whatsoever

It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.

Parallel, Parallel Universe, Parallels, Sex, Universe, Vanished

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

Life, Literature, Thinking, Writers, Writing

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

Carpe Diem, Different, Enough Time, Maybe, People, Save

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

Back, Exams, Like, School, Trying, Would Be

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

Day, Done, Evening, Feet, Work

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

Cowboy, Films, Japan, Lone, Loved, Tvs

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Another Life, Having, Inspirational, Life, Might

I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just for the likes of us, while the big glittering motorways with their huge signs and super cafes were for everyone else.

Big, Country, Dark, Everyone, Night, People

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

Everyone, Favors, Happened, Thought, Wished

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

Air, Hailsam, Littles, Nooks, Secret, Thin

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Beauty, Calmness, Pertinent, Restraint

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

Center, Country, Literary, Should Have, Strong

I quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things at that age: you don't have any clear reason, you just do it. You do it because you think it might get a laugh, or because you want to see if it'll cause a stir. And when you're asked to explain afterwards, it doesn't seem to make any sense.

Age, Clear, Explain, Laughing, Sense, Thinking

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

Ahead, Lies, Lying, Needs, Never Let Me Go, Remember

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

Life, Make, Mistake, Moving, Panic, Piece

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

Course, Dignity, Mistake, Mistakes, Satisfaction, Terms

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 as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.

Imagined, Long, Long Ago, Perspective, Years

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