Quotes About Ishiguro

As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things

Yes. Until recently, I didn't think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.

How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of one's purse. #Page: 10

so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the pain and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.

night, and besides, was ably helped by brave comrades." "The comrades he speaks of," Ivor said, "were too busy

The reason they go for Tommy's because he's a layabout.

Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race is capable of. Continentals

I'd remembered of course that I should be grateful as always, but hadn't been able to keep the disappointment from my mind.

It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days.